By Lukasz Stanek, Christian Schmid, Ákos Moravánszky
Whilst Henri Lefebvre released The city Revolution in 1970, he sketched a learn itinerary at the rising tendency in the direction of planetary urbanization. at the present time, whilst this tendency has turn into fact, Lefebvre's principles on daily life, construction of area, rhythmanalysis and the correct to the town are fundamental for the knowledge of urbanization techniques at each scale of social perform. This quantity is the 1st to increase Lefebvre's techniques in social learn and structure through targeting 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 via historians and theorists of structure and urbanism, geographers, sociologists, political and cultural scientists, city Revolution Now finds the multiplicity of strategies of urbanization and the diversity in their styles and actors around the world.
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