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Contents

List of Figures
About the Contributors

Introduction: Theory, Not Method Thinking with Lefebvre

Christian Schmid, ukasz Stanek and kos Moravnszky

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On Complete Urbanization

The Trouble with Henri: Urban Research and the Theory of the
Production of Space
Christian Schmid

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During the Urban Revolution Conjunctures on the Streets

of Dhaka
Elisa T. Bertuzzo

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Part I

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Where Lefebvre Meets the East: Urbanization in Hong Kong 71

Wing-Shing Tang

Henri Lefebvre and Colonization: From Reinterpretation

to Research
Stefan Kipfer and Kanishka Goonewardena
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Part II

Contradictions of Abstract Space

Plan Puebla Panama: The Violence of Abstract Space

Japhy Wilson

Greater Paris: Urbanization But No Urbanity How Lefebvre

Predicted Our Metropolitan Future
Jean-Pierre Garnier
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Urban Revolution Now

The Production of Urban Competitiveness: Modelling

22@Barcelona
Greig Charnock and Ramon Ribera-Fumaz

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Reconstructing New Orleans and the Right to the City

M. Christine Boyer

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Part III Everyday Architectures

Ground Exploration: Producing Everyday Life at the South Bank,
19481951
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Nick Beech

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The Space of the Square: A Lefebvrean Archaeology of

Budapest
kos Moravnszky

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The Archi-texture of Power: An Inquiry into the Spatial Textures

of Post-socialist Sarajevo
Mejrema Zatri

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For Difference in and through So Paulo: The RegressiveProgressive Method

Fraya Frehse

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Part IV

Urban Society and Its Projects

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Architectural Project and the Agency of Representation:

The Case of Nowa Huta, Poland
ukasz Stanek

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The Debate about Berlin Tempelhof Airport, or: A Lefebvrean

Critique of Recent Debates about Affect in Geography
Ulrich Best

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Novi Beograd: Reinventing Utopia

Ljiljana Blagojevi

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Lefebvrean Vaguenesses: Going Beyond Diversion in the

Production of New Spaces
Jan Lilliendahl Larsen

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Index

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