Society and Space Volume 32 Number 2 included a short, previously untranslated piece by Henri Lefebvre, along with an introduction to the essay by David Wachsmuth and Neil Brenner.
Lefebvre is of course well-known for his books on the city, space and the world, including the English translations and collections Writings on Cities; The Urban Revolution; The Production of Space; and State, Space, World. His previously-unpublished manuscript Towards an Architecture of Enjoyment is forthcoming, and an interview with the editor Łukasz Stanek will appear on this site in due course.
We have made the Lefebvre essay and the Wachsmuth & Brenner introduction open access for two months and on this site there are five commentaries on Lefebvre’s brief, still-timely, and provocative essay.
David Wachsmuth, Neil Brenner – Introduction to Henri Lefebvre’s “Dissolving city, planetary metamorphosis” (open access until 18 June 2014)
Henri Lefebvre – Dissolving city, planetary metamorphosis (open access until 18 June 2014)
Ross Exo Adams – Lefebvre and Urbanization
Stuart Elden – Globe-World-Planet
Stefan Kipfer – Lefebvre’s Metamorphosis: 1989-2006-2014
Adam David Morton – The Survival of Henri Lefebvre
Anne Vogelpohl – Recognizing Paradoxes in the Struggle for a Right to the City
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