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Contents

List of Figures viiAbout the Contributors xi

Introduction: Theory, Not Method Thinking with Lefebvre 1Christian Schmid, ukasz Stanek and kos Moravnszky

Part I On COmPlete UrbanIzatIOn

1 The Trouble with Henri: Urban Research and the Theory of the Production of Space 27Christian Schmid

2 During the Urban Revolution Conjunctures on the Streets of Dhaka 49Elisa T. Bertuzzo

3 Where Lefebvre Meets the East: Urbanization in Hong Kong 71Wing-Shing Tang

4 Henri Lefebvre and Colonization: From Reinterpretation to Research 93Stefan Kipfer and Kanishka Goonewardena

Part II COntradICtIOns Of abstraCt sPaCe

5 Plan Puebla Panama: The Violence of Abstract Space 113Japhy Wilson

6 Greater Paris: Urbanization But No Urbanity How Lefebvre Predicted Our Metropolitan Future 133Jean-Pierre Garnier

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URBAN REVOLUTION NOWvi

7 The Production of Urban Competitiveness: Modelling 22@Barcelona 157Greig Charnock and Ramon Ribera-Fumaz

8 Reconstructing New Orleans and the Right to the City 173M. Christine Boyer

Part III everyday arChIteCtUres

9 Ground Exploration: Producing Everyday Life at the South Bank, 19481951 191Nick Beech

10 The Space of the Square: A Lefebvrean Archaeology of Budapest 207kos Moravnszky

11 The Archi-texture of Power: An Inquiry into the Spatial Textures of Post-socialist Sarajevo 227Mejrema Zatri

12 For Difference in and through So Paulo: The Regressive- Progressive Method 243Fraya Frehse

Part Iv Urban sOCIety and Its PrOjeCts

13 Architectural Project and the Agency of Representation: The Case of Nowa Huta, Poland 265ukasz Stanek

14 The Debate about Berlin Tempelhof Airport, or: A Lefebvrean Critique of Recent Debates about Affect in Geography 283Ulrich Best

15 Novi Beograd: Reinventing Utopia 301Ljiljana Blagojevi

16 Lefebvrean Vaguenesses: Going Beyond Diversion in the Production of New Spaces 319Jan Lilliendahl Larsen

Index 341

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