Everyday Life and Urban Studies: Moving With Lefebvre Towards the 21st Century [Paperback]

Everyday Life and Urban Studies?revisits the ordinary routines that shape urban life during the crises-ridden last century and early new millennium. Vast parts of Henri Lefebvres intellectual work on everyday life however remain underappreciated in urban studies. This book seeks to re-integrate Lefebvres?Critique of Everyday Life?into studies of urbanization. Starting in the 1920s, the book realigns historical insights with contemporary urban phenomena to uncover patterns of capitalist urbanization. By showing the relevance of grasping the minutiae of everyday life to understanding cities, the urban and urbanization today; everyday life, space, and philosophy are brought back in tension. This work combines analytical-methodological exploration, pedagogic mission, and theoretical advances to carve out an everyday-theory-based approach to urban studies situated at the interface of the spatial arts, the humanities, and the social sciences. This book examines the transformative potential that lies hidden in everyday life thereby unravelling a way to nurture hope amid unsettled urban conditions.

The book is essential for students, faculty, and researchers in the fields of urban studies, city planning, urban design, human geography, sociology, cultural studies, and political science.

Part 1. Paving the Ground? ?1.?Everyday Life and Urban Studies. An Introduction??Part?2. Studying Space, Understanding the Social??2. Research on Cities, Urbanization and Urban Societies? 3. Urban Studies and the Minutiae of Everyday Life? 4. Critical Social Perspectives in Spatial Theory??Part?3. Revisiting Critiques of Everyday Life throughout the 20th Century??5. Dialectics and Rising Fascism: Everyday Life and Philosophy in Crises? 6. Postwar Geographies of Everyday Life and the Question of Sclãj