ABSTRACT

The Routledge Handbook of Henri Lefebvre,The City and Urban Society is the first edited book to focus on 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.

The book provides international comparison of Lefebvrian research and theoretical conjecture and aims; to engage with and critique Lefebvre's ideas in the context of contemporary urban, social and environmental upheavals; to use Lefebvre's spatial triad as a research tool as well as a point of departure for the adoption of ideas such as differential space; to reassess Lefebvre's ideas in relation to nature and global environmental sustainability; and to highlight how a Lefebvrian approach might assist in mobilising resistance to the excesses of globalised neoliberal urbanism. The volume draws inspiration from Lefebvre's key texts (The Production of SpaceCritique of Everyday Life; and The Urban Revolution) and includes a comprehensive introduction and concluding chapter by the editors. The conclusions highlight implications in relation to increasing spatial inequalities; increasing diversity of needs including those of migrants; more authoritarian approaches; and asymmetries of access to urban space. Above all, the book illustrates the continuing relevance of Levebvre's ideas for contemporary urban issues and shows – via global case studies – how resistance to spatial domination by powerful interests might be achieved. 

The Handbook helps the reader navigate the complex terrain of spatial research inspired by Lefebvre. In particular the Handbook focuses on: the series of struggles globally for the 'right to the city' and the collision of debates around the urban age, 'cityism' and planetary urbanisation. It will be a guide for graduate and advanced undergraduate teaching, and a key reference for academics in the fields of Human Geography, Sociology, Political Science, Applied Philosophy, Planning, Urban Theory and Urban Studies. Practitioners and activists in the field will also find the book of relevance.

chapter |20 pages

Introduction: ‘Urban’ ideas for two centuries

ByMichael E. Leary-Owhin, John P. McCarthy

part 1|88 pages

Globalised neoliberal urbanism: Hegemony and opposition

chapter 1|15 pages

Lefebvre’s transduction in a neoliberal epoch

ByMichael E. Leary-Owhin

chapter 2|10 pages

Lefebvre in Palestine

Anti-colonial de-colonisation and the right to the city
ByOded Haas

chapter 3|9 pages

The urban revolution(s) in Latin America

Reinventing utopia
ByChris Hesketh

chapter 4|10 pages

Contesting spaces of an urban renewal project

A study of Kumartuli’s artist colony
ByRishika Mukhopadhyay

chapter 5|9 pages

Lefebvre and contemporary urbanism

The enduring influence and critical power of his writing on cities
ByPierre Filion

chapter 6|10 pages

Neo-liberalism, extraction and displacement

Abstract space and urbanism in India’s ‘tribal’ belt
ByMichael Spacek

chapter 7|11 pages

Constructed otherness

Remaking space in American suburbia
ByGregory Marinic

chapter 8|10 pages

Prohibited places

The pericentral self-produced neighbourhoods of Maputo in the neoliberal context
BySilvia Jorge

part 2|84 pages

Rethinking the spatial triad and rhythmanalysis

chapter 9|11 pages

Still burning

The politics of language in the South Bronx
ByOscar Olivier-Didier

chapter 10|10 pages

Spaces of resistance in Luanda

‘How do [small] gains become prisons?’ an analysis from a Lefebvrian perspective
BySílvia Leiria Viegas

chapter 11|10 pages

Reading and applying Lefebvre as an urban social anthropologist

BySiew-Peng Lee, Ho Hon Leung

chapter 12|9 pages

Towards a contemporary concrete abstract

BySteve Hanson, Mark Rainey

chapter 13|11 pages

Russian dolls

Trialectics in motion and spatial analysis
ByMiguel Torres García

chapter 14|9 pages

Counter-spaces, no-man’s lands and mainstream public space

Representational spaces in homeless activism in Japan
ByCarl Cassegård

chapter 15|10 pages

Henri Lefebvre’s rhythmanalysis as a form of urban poetics

ByClaire Revol

chapter 16|10 pages

Space in representation

Dislocation of meaning from the Gezi Park protests to the new Turkish Presidential Compound
ByBülent Batuman

part 3|88 pages

Representing and contesting urban space

chapter 17|10 pages

Lefebvre and the law

Social justice, the spatial imaginary and new technologies
ByJulia J.A. Shaw

chapter 18|14 pages

Interpreting the spatial triad

A new analytical model between form and flux, space and time
ByGunter Heinickel, Hans-Peter Meier Dallach

chapter 19|9 pages

Movement without words

An intersection of Lefebvre and the urban practice of skateboarding
ByIain Borden

chapter 20|10 pages

Visual productions of urban space

Lefebvre, the city and cinema
ByNick Jones

chapter 21|10 pages

Dominated and appropriated knowledge workspaces

A tale of two cases
ByIan Ellison

chapter 22|10 pages

Dwelling on design

The influence of Logos and Eros, nouns and verbs, on public housing renewal and cooperative alternatives
ByMatthew Thompson

chapter 23|11 pages

The consequential geographies of the immigrant neighbourhood of Quinta do Mocho in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area

ByMargarida Queirós, Anna Ludovici, Jorge Malheiros

chapter 24|10 pages

Contested cultural heritage space in urban renewal

The case of a dense urban city in Hong Kong
ByEsther H.K. Yung, Ho Hon Leung

part 4|86 pages

Planetary urbanisation and ‘nature’

chapter 25|11 pages

Urban agriculture

Food as production of space
ByMichael Granzow, Rob Shields

chapter 26|11 pages

Ecologising Lefebvre

Urban mobilities and the production of nature
ByNicholas A. Scott

chapter 27|9 pages

Lefebvre and atmospheric production

An architectronics of air
ByDerek R. Ford

chapter 28|9 pages

Transforming nature through cyclical appropriation or linear dominance?

Lefebvre’s contributions to thinking about the interaction between human activity and nature
ByDaniel Paiva

chapter 29|9 pages

Drivers of global urbanisation

Exploring the emerging urban society
ByPanu Lehtovuori, Jani Tartia, Damiano Cerrone

chapter 30|10 pages

The aesthetics of spatial justice under planetary urbanisation

BySaara Liinamaa

chapter 32|12 pages

Land use planning, global changes and local responsibilities

ByLuca P. Marescotti

part 5|86 pages

Rethinking the right to the city

chapter 33|11 pages

Right to the city or to the planet?

Why Henri Lefebvre’s vision is useful and too narrow at the same time
ByMarcelo Lopes de Souza

chapter 34|10 pages

‘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
ByEveliina Lyytinen

chapter 35|10 pages

‘Right to the city’ versus neoliberal urbanism in globalising cities in China

ByRan Liu, Tai-Chee Wong

chapter 36|9 pages

Urban creativity through displacement and spatial disruption

BySana Murrani

chapter 37|11 pages

The ‘newcomers’ ’ right to the city

Producing common spaces in Athens and Thessaloniki
ByCharalampos Tsavdarolgou

chapter 38|10 pages

The right to the city

Evaluating the changing role of community participation in urban planning in England
ByNick Bailey

chapter 39|9 pages

Lefebvre and the inequity of obesity

Slim chance of food justice for the urban poor
ByHilary J. Shaw

chapter 40|12 pages

The urban and the written in Lefebvre’s urban texts

ByRebio Diaz Cardona

part 6|96 pages

Right to the city, differential space and urban utopias

chapter 41|10 pages

Exploring the contours of the right to the city

Abstraction, appropriation and utopia
ByChris Butler

chapter 42|10 pages

Informal settlements and shantytowns as differential space

ByMarie Huchzermeyer

chapter 43|15 pages

From Mourenx to spaces of difference

ByMichael E. Leary-Owhin

chapter 44|10 pages

Right to the city and urban resistance in Turkey

A comparative perspective
ByGülçin Erdi

chapter 45|10 pages

Dystopian utopia? Utopian dystopia?

A tale of two struggles for the right to the city
ByMee Kam Ng

chapter 46|10 pages

‘Something more, something better, something else, is needed’

A renewed ‘fête’ on London’s South Bank
ByAlasdair J.H. Jones

chapter 47|11 pages

The right to the city

Centre or periphery?
ByNathaniel Coleman

chapter |16 pages

Conclusions

The future-possible
ByJohn P. McCarthy, Michael E. Leary-Owhin