The Urban Revolution

Very smooth cover. For research purposes.

Not an easy reading, but definitely a classic for urban planners.

The book is very abstract and jargony with Marxist undertones, but novel. Probably a "must read" in "the literature" but in reality not a very important book to have under one's belt

All good

Henri Lefebvre through this book provides an intellectual seed to Marxist Urban Theory. This book configures an intellectual manifesto. Through it, Lefebvre gave a reinterpretation Marx's works. Also, he criticised the way Marx's work functioned in totalitarian communist governments, where power was quite far from proletariat. This book is a snowball of coherent understanding behind the production of the urban: while you advance through the pages, you're more convinced about his argument. He points out that lack of ideology and theory in urbanism works in favour of capitalism, undermining the achievement of a just city and facilitating the triumph of the elite in the class struggle. Unconsciousness, depoliticization, and dis-ideologization of urban disciplines make the job hide the obscure process of social segregation. Along the text you can find several proposals to overthrow this capitalist urban production, however that is something that you might discover. As Lefebvre says, this is an ambiguous and open intellectualization of the urban life. This is not a prescription to resolve the problems of the world or something like that. Instead, this is the very justification of the necessity to build an epistemology of the urbanism. "The urban revolution" is a demanding for theorize processes of urban production; a desperate cry against the urbanists to save urban life from the claws of capitalist individualisation and alienation of society. For him, the urban have the key to reaching social justice and happiness in the everyday life.

Totally readable, great value

One of the most fundamental books for those who begins into the studies and understanding of the cities.The book was in very good conditions, good as new!

La calidad del producto fue excelente, además de la rapidez con que llego. Este libro es recomentable si te interesa los estudios urbanos y de ciudad desde una perspectiva marxista