Henri Lefebvre’s Urban Critical Theory

Rethinking the City against Capitalism

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ID13043056
AuthorsFrancesco Biagi (0000-0003-3733-2706, University of Pisa, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume10
Issue2
Pages214-231
Publication date2020-04-02
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Critical Thought (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2159-8312 • E-ISSN: 2159-8312
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/21598282.2020.1783693
OpenAlexW3039250273
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited13

In the article the author highlights the main ways of the Lefebvrian sociological analysis conceived starting from the transformations of the city in the Fordist era: From the production of urban marginality, through the proliferation of precarious living in the France of the Sixties and Seventies, to recording the gradual disappearance of the urban–rural dichotomy, that goes into an authentic spatial hegemony of urbanization processes. The goal is therefore to highlight the “urban critical theory” of Henri Lefebvre, coming to discuss the famous meaning of “right to the city,” strongly interconnected with the concept of “city as an artwork,” that is the idea of an urban space intended as horizontal and common design by those who live and inhabit in it

Aesthetics · Art · Capitalism · Civil engineering · Critical theory · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Epistemology · Fordism · Geography · Hegemony · Meaning (existential · Political science · Politics · Regional science · Right to the city · Sociology · Space (punctuation) · Urban space · Urban theory · Urbanization · French Urban and Social Studies · Law · Philosophy · Urban Planning and Governance · Walter Benjamin Studies Compilation

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