This book brings the debates of the 'right to the city' into today's context of ecological, economic and social crises. Building on the 1970s' discussions about the 'production of space', which French sociologist Henri Lefebvre considered a civic right, the authors question who …
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- FIGURES -- TABLES -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- 1. The social (re)production of architecture in 'crisis-riddled' times -- PART I - POLITICS -- 2. Notes on social production. A brief commentary -- 3. Making places, build…
Resilience will be a defining quality of the twenty-first century. As we witness the increasingly turbulent effects of climate change, the multiple challenges of resource depletion and wage stagnation, we know that our current ways of living are not resilient. Our urban infrastr…
