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

2012; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 17; Issue: 5 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/13602365.2012.724881

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Ljiljana Blagojević,

French Urban and Social Studies

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes H. Lefebvre, The Production of Space 1974, D. Nicholson Smith, trsl. (London, Blackwell, 1991); H. Lefebvre, Critique of Everyday Life, Volume I: Introduction 1st edition in French, 1947; 2nd edition with Preface, 1958 J. Moore, trsl. (London, Verso, 1991). Up to the collapse of socialism and break up of Yugoslavia in 1991, some fifteen books and numerous articles and essays by H. Lefebvre were published in the Serbo-Croat language, from the first in 1957 (Contribution à l'esthétique, 1953), to Critique de la vie quotidienne, vol. 1 [Introduction, 1947] in 1959 and integral with vol. 2 [Fondements d'une sociologie de la quotidienneté, 1961] and vol. 3 [De la modernité au modernisme: Pour une métaphilosophie du quotidien, 1981] in 1988, including La révolution urbaine (1970) in 1974 that preceded its translation into English by some thirty years. See, for example, K. Goonewardena, S. Kipfer, R. Milgrom, C. Schmid, eds, Space, Difference, Everyday Life: Reading Henri Lefebvre (London, Routledge, 2008); A. Merrifield, Henri Lefebvre: a critical introduction (New York, Routledge, 2006); S. Elden, Understanding Henri Lefebvre: theory and the possible (London and New York, Continuum, 2004); R. Shields, Lefebvre, Love & Struggle: Spatial Dialectics (London, Routledge, 1999). N. Brenner and S. Elden, ‘Henri Lefebvre in Contexts: An Introduction’, Antipode, vol. 33, no. 5 (2001), pp. 763–768. H. Lefebvre, Rhythmanalysis: Space, Time and Everyday Life, S. Elden, G. Moore, trs. (London, New York, Continuum, 2004). In the course of research for my doctorate in 2004, I found the original booklet submitted to the International Competition for New Belgrade by Lefebvre and his team in the private archive of the Belgrade sociologist Ksenija Petovar, to whom I extend my thanks. The booklet has subsequently been published in facsimile as: P. Guilbaud, H. Lefebvre, S. Renaudie, ‘International Competition for the New Belgrade Urban Structure Improvement’ (1986), in, S. Bitter, H. Weber, eds, Autogestion, or Henri Lefebvre in New Belgrade (Vancouver, Fillip Editions and Berlin, Sternberg Press, 2009), pp. 1–71. This book also covers the Competition and Lefebvre's team entry: see Lj. Blagojević, ‘The Problematic of a “New Urban”: The Right to New Belgrade’, pp. 119–133.