The Routledge Handbook of Henri Lefebvre, The City and Urban Society

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Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Editors
Contributors
Introduction: ‘Urban’ ideas for two centuries
	Context and rationale
	Book aims
	Production of Lefebvrian literature
	Some key ideas and a surprise
	Producing contradiction and controversy
	Structure of the book
	Part 1: Globalised neoliberal urbanism: hegemony and opposition
	Part 2: Rethinking the spatial triad and rhythmanalysis
	Part 3: Representing and contesting urban space
	Part 4: Planetary urbanisation and ‘nature’
	Part 5: Rethinking the right to the city
	Part 6: Right to the city, differential space and urban utopias
	Acknowledgements
	References
Part 1: Globalised neoliberal urbanism: Hegemony and opposition
	Chapter 1 Lefebvre’s transduction in a neoliberal epoch
		Introduction
		Enigmatic, constant, mutable
		Glory, money and women
		Being Lefebvrian: research theory and practice
		Specific research methods
		Marxism, dialectical research and transduction
		Conclusions
		Acknowledgements
		References
	Chapter 2 Lefebvre in Palestine: Anti-colonial de-colonisation and the right to the city
		Introduction
		The ‘Arab City’ in Israel: a new fact of colonial urbanism
		The Palestinian question is an urban question
		Colonial fear and urban resistance
		Conclusions
		References
	Chapter 3 The urban revolution(s) in Latin America: Reinventing utopia
		Introduction
		Spaces of ISI
		Crisis and the export of devaluation
		Resistance
		Conclusions
		References
	Chapter 4 Contesting spaces of an urban renewal project: A study of Kumartuli’s artist colony
		Introduction
		Urban renewal projects and capitalist production of space
		Genealogy of an artist colony
		Logistics of an urban renewal project
		Space as lived
		Conclusions
		References
	Chapter 5 Lefebvre and contemporary urbanism: The enduring influence and critical power of his writing on cities
		Introduction
		The intellectual foundations of Lefebvre
		The thinking and writing style of Lefebvre
		Alienation and the Right to the City
		The Right to the City in the contemporary urban context
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 6 Neo-liberalism, extraction and displacement: Abstract space and urbanism in India’s ‘tribal’ belt
		Introduction
		Naya Raipur, Chhattisgarh
		Belgaria, Jharkhand
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 7 Constructed otherness: Remaking space in American suburbia
		Introduction
		Latent borderlands
		From utopian origins
		Heterotopian peripheries in transition
		Otherness and resilience
		Laredo: the portal
		An edge condition: River Drive Mall in Laredo
		A ‘ruin’: Indeterminate Façade Building in Houston
		An interstitial space: Greenspoint Mall in Houston
		Conclusions
		References
	Chapter 8 Prohibited places: The pericentral self-produced neighbourhoods of Maputo in the neoliberal context
		Introduction
		A hegemonic model of abstraction
		Zones of natural risk
		Another face of the ‘prohibited places’
		Conclusions
		References
Part 2: Rethinking the spatial triad and rhythmanalysis
	Chapter 9 Still burning: The politics of language in the South Bronx
		Introduction
		Dissecting some of the reasons why the Bronx burned
		Statement and methodology
		Introduction to key Lefebvrian terms
		How it got rebuilt: interviews with key figures in the Bronx
		Conclusions
		References
	Chapter 10 Spaces of resistance in Luanda: ‘How do [small] gains become prisons?’ an analysis from a Lefebvrian perspective
		Introduction
		Theoretical-methodological and empirical framework
		Top-down production of space
		Bottom-up production of space
		Militant resistance and awareness
		Spaces of resistance: ‘co-induced in-between spaces’?
		Conclusions: ‘gains and prisons’
		Acknowledgements
		References
	Chapter 11 Reading and applying Lefebvre as an urban social anthropologist
		Introduction
		The state of urban anthropology
		Applying Lefebvre in anthropology
		Conclusions
		References
	Chapter 12 Towards a contemporary concrete abstract
		Introduction
		Locating the concrete abstract
		Lefebvre’s Dialectical Materialism
		The concrete abstract
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 13 Russian dolls: Trialectics in motion and spatial analysis
		Introduction: Spanish Francoist colonisation towns under the trialectic lens
		The emergence of a representation of space
		Searching for the complete trialectic picture
		The architect’s playground
		Heritagisation of the architect’s space
		Conclusions
		References
	Chapter 14 Counter-spaces, no-man’s lands and mainstream public space: Representational spaces in homeless activism in Japan
		Introduction
		Why the homeless?
		Rhythms and spaces in the homeless movement
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 15 Henri Lefebvre’s rhythmanalysis as a form of urban poetics
		Introduction
		Rhythmanalysis and the social production of space-time
		Rhythmanalysis and the quest for the appropriation of urban space-time
		Rhythmanalysis as experimental utopia
		Rhythmanalysis and Lefebvrian urban poetics
		Conclusions
		References
	Chapter 16 Space in representation: Dislocation of meaning from the Gezi Park protests to the new Turkish Presidential Compound
		Introduction
		Occupation as production of space
		Representations of space in the post-Gezi moment
		Conclusions
		References
Part 3: Representing and contesting urban space
	Chapter 17 Lefebvre and the law: Social justice, the spatial imaginary and new technologies
		Introduction
		The influence of Lefebvre on law’s spatial turn
		Lefebvre’s spatial dialectic and social justice
		Lefebvre’s spatial triad and the cyber-spatial metaphor
		Cyberspace as a contested space
		Spatiality, power and justice in a digitised world
		Conclusions
		References
	Chapter 18 Interpreting the spatial triad: A new analytical model between form and flux, space and time
		Introduction
		Transformation points between spatial practices and representational space
		The model approach: representational space between form and flux
		Summary (Focus IV) – from description to conception
		Conclusions
		References
	Chapter 19 Movement without words: An intersection of Lefebvre and the urban practice of skateboarding
		Introduction
		Beyond the shiny product
		Gifts of freedom
		Skateboarding is not a crime
		Conclusions
		References
	Chapter 20 Visual productions of urban space: Lefebvre, the city and cinema
		Introduction
		Foregrounding cinematic space
		Lefebvre and cinematic urbanism
		City of screens
		Conclusion: the Lefebvrian cinematic city
		References
	Chapter 21 Dominated and appropriated knowledge workspaces: A tale of two cases
		Introduction
		A case for Henri
		Locating Lefebvre
		Henri on the case
		Lefebvrian implications
		Conclusions
		References
	Chapter 22 Dwelling on design: The influence of Logos and Eros, nouns and verbs, on public housing renewal and cooperative alternatives
		Introduction
		Liverpool: a brief history of treating housing as a noun or a verb
		Discussion: towards experimental utopias?
		Conclusion
		References
	Chapter 23 The consequential geographies of the immigrant neighbourhood of Quinta do Mocho in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area
		Introduction
		Quinta do Mocho in the LMA (Lisbon Metropolitan Area) context
		Quinta do Mocho: representation of space, spatial practice and space of representation
		Conclusions
		References
	Chapter 24 Contested cultural heritage space in urban renewal: The case of a dense urban city in Hong Kong
		Introduction
		Theoretical framework
		Discussion
		Conclusions
		References
Part 4: Planetary urbanisation and ‘nature’
	Chapter 25 Urban agriculture: Food as production of space
		Introduction
		Introducing Lefebvre
		Coming to terms with urban agriculture
		Lefebvre and urban agriculture: cultivating the right to the city
		Urban agriculture on trial: reconciling tactics and strategies
		Conclusions
		References
	Chapter 26 Ecologising Lefebvre: Urban mobilities and the production of nature
		Introduction
		Automobility and the production of nature
		Producing nature differently
		Conclusions
		References
	Chapter 27 Lefebvre and atmospheric production: An architectronics of air
		Introduction
		An architectronics of space
		An architectronics of air
		Conclusions
		References
	Chapter 28 Transforming nature through cyclical appropriation or linear dominance?: Lefebvre’s contributions to thinking about the interaction between human activity and nature
		Introduction
		Nature
		An ahistorical history of the transformation of nature
		Looking at the dynamics between linear dominance and cyclical appropriation in a context of second nature
		Conclusions
		Acknowledgement
		References
	Chapter 29 Drivers of global urbanisation: Exploring the emerging urban society
		Introduction
		Drivers of urbanisation and critical phase
		Studying habiting as embodied and situated processes
		Rhythms and mobilities of the urban
		Metamorphology, the invisible form of the urban
		Conclusions: coping with the blind field
		Acknowledgements
		References
	Chapter 30 The aesthetics of spatial justice under planetary urbanisation
		Introduction
		Lefebvre, art, and artists
		Planetary urbanisation and the search for a critical spatial aesthetic
		Contemporary art’s fabric of expansive urbanisation
		Conclusions
		References
	Chapter 31 Mapping Lefebvre’s theory on the production of space to an integrated approach for sustainable urbanism
		Introduction
		The general theory of a dialectical urban evolution
		Conflicted space as a key threat to sustainability
		The production of urban qualities for sustainability
		Conclusions
		References
	Chapter 32 Land use planning, global changes and local responsibilities
		Introduction
		Similar cities, standardised cities
		Inhabiting the Earth
		Wizards and alchemists
		Political will and complexity
		Conclusions
		Acknowledgements
		References
Part 5: Rethinking the right to the city
	Chapter 33 Right to the city or to the planet?: Why Henri Lefebvre’s vision is useful and too narrow at the same time
		Introduction: a brilliant thinker and his contradictions
		Beyond (but by no means against) the ‘right to the city’: Lefebvre’s limits from a left-libertarian and politico-ecological perspective
		Neither urban-philic nor urban-phobic
		Conclusions: an overestimated legacy?
		References
	Chapter 34 ‘In a group you feel OK, but outside there you are ready to die’: The role of a support group in disabled refugees’ struggles for their ‘right to the city’ in Kampala, Uganda
		Introduction
		Data and field context
		The RTC as participation
		The RTC as access to city space
		The RTC as appropriation
		Conclusions
		References
	Chapter 35 ‘Right to the city’ versus neoliberal urbanism in globalising cities in China
		Introduction
		Spatial politics: developmentalism versus right to habitat
		City imaging and eviction of socially weak groups
		From ‘city as spectacle’ to ‘city as oeuvre’
		Right to the city in China’s urban space
		Transitional space for sojourners instead of full citizens
		Conclusions
		Funding statement
		References
	Chapter 36 Urban creativity through displacement and spatial disruption
		Introduction: urban displacement
		The right to drift
		Urban creativity through the concept of the ‘blind field’
		Conclusions
		References
	Chapter 37 The ‘newcomers’’ right to the city: Producing common spaces in Athens and Thessaloniki
		Introduction
		Open dialectics and autonomy of migration on the production of common space
		The refugees’ right to the city and to adequate housing vis-à-vis state-run camps in Athens and Thessaloniki
		Refugee common spaces
		Conclusions
		References
	Chapter 38 The right to the city: Evaluating the changing role of community participation in urban planning in England
		Introduction
		Interpreting the right to the city
		Applying Lefebvre’s conceptual framework to planning and urban development in England
		Public participation in development management and statutory plans
		Neighbourhood planning
		Community-based developments
		Conclusions
		References
	Chapter 39 Lefebvre and the inequity of obesity: Slim chance of food justice for the urban poor
		Introduction: the right to food in the city
		The class wars of food
		Casualties of war
		The shrinkage of Lefebvrian space, money, and time
		Dantean Space: from precariats to cold boxes
		Reclaiming the city: urban agriculture and the Foodfare state
		Conclusions
		References
	Chapter 40 The urban and the written in Lefebvre’s urban texts
		Introduction
		Writing in The Right to the City
		Writing in The Urban Revolution
		Writing in The Production of Space
		Implications
		Conclusions
		References
Part 6: Right to the city, differential space and urban utopias
	Chapter 41 Exploring the contours of the right to the city: Abstraction, appropriation and utopia
		Introduction
		The emergence of differential space
		The contours of the right to the city
		Concrete utopia: between appropriation and abstraction
		Conclusions
		References
	Chapter 42 Informal settlements and shantytowns as differential space
		Introduction
		From the critique of urbanism to the affirmation of difference through a political strategy
		Towards the political possibility inherent in produced difference
		A shift in Lefebvre’s understanding of informal settlements: from induced to produced difference
		Lefebvre’s understanding of informal settlements, and its political meaning
		Conclusions
		References
	Chapter 43 From Mourenx to spaces of difference
		Introduction
		Lefebvre: reader and researcher
		The Mourenx moment
		From Nanterre to urban society
		Differential space or spaces of difference?
		The right to difference
		Conclusions
		Acknowledgements
		References
	Chapter 44 Right to the city and urban resistance in Turkey: A comparative perspective
		Introduction
		Informal neighbourhoods in the newly restructured urban system
		Right to the city in neighbourhood resistance
		Conclusions
		References
	Chapter 45 Dystopian utopia? Utopian dystopia? A tale of two struggles for the right to the city
		Introduction
		The dialectics of utopia and dystopia
		Government plans (conceived space): it is all about growth…
		Representational space at the ‘vortex of destruction’
		The critical roles of ‘enlightened elites’
		The fight for differential space
		Conclusions: everyday utopianism in face of a dystopian utopia
		Acknowledgement
		References
	Chapter 46 ‘Something more, something better, something else, is needed’: A renewed ‘fête’ on London’s South Bank
		Introduction
		Fête-less space: be wary of Disneyfication
		Extending the possible
		The ‘possible-impossible’ on the South Bank
		A renewed ‘fête’: putting art at the service of the urban
		Conclusions
		References
	Chapter 47 The right to the city: Centre or periphery?
		Introduction
		Legal rights to the city?
		The problem of the visual
		Caro Diario and different centres
		The urban: place of encounter
		Conclusions
		References
	Conclusions: The future-possible
		Introduction
		Themes
		A new research agenda
		Policy, practice and activism implications
		References
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