1st Edition
Renewing Urban Critical Theories Rediscovering Thinkers, Reimagining Texts, and Reframing Questions
Preface
Francesco Biagi
SECTION 1 Theory and Problems
1 If Urban History Had Been Written Including Women’s Contributions, the Cities Would Be Different
Zaida Muxí Martínez and Daniela Arias Laurino
2 Considering the Urban from the Periphery: The New Urban Question?
Ana Fani Alessandri Carlos
3 Space and Politics in Centre and Periphery: Ginige Vernon Stanley de Silva’s Heretical Thoughts on Country, City and Communism
Kanishka Goonewardena
4 The Peripheral Condition as the New Urban Question in the Crisis of Capital
Thiago Canettieri
5 Resurfacing the Urban Question: Rediscovering Danilo Montaldi as an Urban Sociologist
Francesco Biagi
SECTION 2 The Production of Space as Essential Human Productive Force
6 Henri Lefebvre’s Theory of the Production of Space: A Critical History of the Urban
Rolando Espinosa Hernández
7 Lefebvre and the Contradiction of Modernity. Contribution to a Critique of the Spatial Functionalism of Capital
Roberto Vargas Muñoz
8 The Hypermodern City of Late Capitalism and the Suspension of Human Temporality. On Henri Lefebvre’s Unfinished Philosophical Project of Articulating Time and Space
Yannis Flytzanis
9 Should We Defend the Right to the City? Urban Struggles and ‘Fragmented Rights to the City’
Simon Le Roulley
10 Rethinking the Urban Commons with the Production of Space
Renaud Lariagon
SECTION 3 Unveiling Urban Perspectives Beyond the Global North’s Bubble
11 China, Infrastructure and Global Urbanization: Critique of the Capital Circuits Hypothesis Based on Brazil-China Relations
Rubens Marcelo de Campo Pinto
12 Capitalism, Racism and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Brazil: Notes on an Announced Tragedy
Deivison Faustino, Vitor Coelho Nisida, Danielle Klintowitz, Lara Aguiar Cavalcante and Maria Aparecida Lourenço Barbosa
13 Between the Historicist and the Dehistoricized: The Stories of the National Capital Region, India
Diviani Chaudhuri and Iman Mitra
14 The Art of Seeing. On Lefebvre, Images, and Chilean Fascism
Angelo Narváez León
Biography
Francesco Biagi is Researcher in Social Theory in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, and the author of Henri Lefebvre’s Critical Theory of Space.
