Praktyka Teoretyczna (Jan 2012)

The Right to the City

  • Henri Lefebvre

DOI
https://doi.org/10.14746/prt.2012.5.14
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 5, no. 0
pp. 183 – 197

Abstract

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The article provides a new proposition of thinking about such categoriesas a city, the urban, urban strategy and social practices connected with analyticalscience of the city, which is only at the outline stage, but also projected by Lefebvrehimself. This turn seems necessary due to the death of traditional city and oldhumanism. The article is also a passionate and utopian (in positive sense of term)manifesto for democratization of right to the city consisting of cry and demand ofthe dispossessed from such a prerogative. The author argues that an urban strategybased on a new science of the city needs social support and political force. They willbe provided by the working class, putting an end to the urban segregation.

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