Renewing Urban Critical Theories: Rediscovering Thinkers, Reimagining Texts, and Reframing Questions [Hardcover]

Preface??Section 1: Theory and Problems? 1.?If Urban History Had Been Written Including Womens Contributions, the Cities Would Be Different.? 2.?Considering the Urban from the Periphery: The New Urban Issue?? 3.?Space and Politics in Centre and Periphery: Ginige Vernon Stanley de Silvas Heretical Thoughts on Country, City and Communism.? 4.The Peripheral Condition as the New Urban Question in the Crisis of Capital.? 5.?Resurfacing the Urban Margins: Rediscovering Danilo Montaldi as an Urban Sociologist.??Section 2: The Production of Space as Essential Human Productive Force??6.?The Production of Space as the History of the Urban.? 7.?Lefebvre and the Contradiction of Modernity: A Contribution to the Critique of Capital's Spatial Functionalism.? 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.? 9.?Should we defend the right to the city? Urban struggles and fragmented rights to the city.? 10.?Rethinking the Urban Commons with the Production of Space.??Section 3: Unveiling Urban Perspectives Beyond the Global Norths Bubble??11.?China, Infrastructure and Global Urbanization: Critique of the Capital Circuits Hypothesis based on Brazil-China Relations.? 12.?Capitalism, Racism and the Covid-19 Pandemic in Brazil: Notes on an Announced Tragedy.? 13.?Between the Historicist and the Dehistorised: The Stories of the National Capital Region, India.? 14.?The Art of Seeing. On Lefebvre, Images, and Chilean Fascism.

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This book presents an interdisciplinary and international re-evaluation of urban critical theories, bringing together key, global perspectives on contemporary urban studies. Appealing to scholars across disciplines, and politically-engaged individuals interested in critical theoretical analyses of urban and spatial transformalƒY