By Lukasz Stanek, Christian Schmid, Ákos Moravánszky
While Henri Lefebvre released The city Revolution in 1970, he sketched a examine itinerary at the rising tendency in the direction of planetary urbanization. at the present time, while this tendency has develop into fact, Lefebvre's rules on daily life, creation of house, rhythmanalysis and the perfect to the town are vital for the certainty of urbanization approaches at each scale of social perform. This quantity is the 1st to advance Lefebvre's ideas in social examine and structure by way of concentrating on city conjunctures in Barcelona, Belgrade, Berlin, Budapest, Copenhagen, Dhaka, Hong Kong, London, New Orleans, Nowa Huta, Paris, Toronto, Sao Paulo, Sarajevo, in addition to in Mexico and Switzerland. With contributions by way of historians and theorists of structure and urbanism, geographers, sociologists, political and cultural scientists, city Revolution Now finds the multiplicity of approaches of urbanization and the range in their styles and actors worldwide.
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2012). 3 However, both theorists finally pursued very different projects: while Harvey developed a relatively restricted theory of the political economy of space, Lefebvre had the much broader vision of a comprehensive theory of the production of space. But this project did not arouse much interest for quite some time. This situation changed fundamentally in the 1990s, when, under the influence of the spatial and the cultural turn, the theory of the production of space was ‘rediscovered’ and finally received with great interest and even enthusiasm (for example, Soja 1989, 1996, Gregory 1994, Dear 2000).