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

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2019Copyright date: ©2020Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (573 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781351970549
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 307.7609
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Contents:
Cover -- 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.
Summary: This handbook is the first edited book to focus of Lefebvre's urban theories and ideas from a global perspective, making use of recent theoretical and empirical developments, with contributions from eminent as well as emergent global scholars.
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Cover -- 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.

This handbook is the first edited book to focus of Lefebvre's urban theories and ideas from a global perspective, making use of recent theoretical and empirical developments, with contributions from eminent as well as emergent global scholars.

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