Urban Revolution Now

When Henri Lefebvre published The Urban Revolution in 1970 he sketched a research itinerary on the emerging tendency towards planetary urbanization. Today when this tendency has become reality Lefebvre’s ideas on everyday life production of space rhythmanalysis and the right to the city are indispensable for the understanding of urbanization processes at every scale of social practice. This volume is the first to develop Lefebvre’s concepts in social research and architecture by focusing on urban conjunctures in Barcelona Belgrade Berlin Budapest Copenhagen Dhaka Hong Kong London New Orleans Nowa Huta Paris Toronto São Paulo Sarajevo as well as in Mexico and Switzerland. With contributions by historians and theorists of architecture and urbanism geographers sociologists political and cultural scientists Urban Revolution Now reveals the multiplicity of processes of urbanization and the variety of their patterns and actors around the globe.