Henri Lefebvre on Space: Architecture, Urban Research, and the Production of Theory

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Henri Lefebvre on Space Henri Lefebvre on Space Architecture, Urban Research, and the Production of Theory Łukasz Stanek UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA PRESS MINNEAPOLIS | LONDON THIS BOOK IS SUPPORTED BY A GRANT FROM THE GRAHAM FOUNDATION FOR ADVANCED STUDIES IN THE FINE ARTS. Portions of the text were published in Łukasz Stanek, “Lessons from Nanterre,” in “Aftershocks: Generation(s) since 1968,” a special issue of Log 13/14 (Fall 2008); in Łukasz Stanek, “Productive Crisis: Henri Lefebvre and the European City after the Welfare State,” Quarterly Architecture Essay (QAE) 3, no. 3 (Spring 2008), http:// www.haecceityinc.com; and in Łukasz Stanek, “Collective Luxury: Architecture and Populism in Charles Fourier,” Hunch 14, ed. Salomon Frausto (NAi Publishers/Berlage Institute, 2010). A version of chapter 3 appeared previously as Łukasz Stanek, “Space as Concrete Abstraction: Hegel, Marx, and Modern Urbanism in Henri Lefebvre,” in Stefan Kipfer, Richard Milgrom, Kanishka Goonewardena, and Christian Schmid, eds., Space, Difference, Everyday Life: Reading Henri Lefebvre (London: Routledge, 2008). Copyright 2011 by the Regents of the University of Minnesota All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. Published by the University of Minnesota Press 111 Third Avenue South, Suite 290 Minneapolis, MN 55401-2520 http://www.upress.umn.edu Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper The University of Minnesota is an equal-opportunity educator and employer. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Stanek, Łukasz. Henri Lefebvre on space : architecture, urban research, and the production of theory / Łukasz Stanek. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8166-6616-4 (hardcover : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8166-6617-1 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Social sciences—Philosophy. 2. Space and time. 3. Lefebvre, Henri, 1901–1991. I. Title. II. Title: Architecture, urban research, and the production of theory. H61.15.S73 2011 304.2'3—dc22 2011011284 18 17 16 15 14 13 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 ...