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Writings on cities

Henri Lefebvre

1996
Urban Cities And Towns Sociology

This book presents the most major Lefebvre's works which deal with the Every day experiences, the city, urban, space, and politic. Lefebvre was a real Marxist and also got influenced from Nietzche, particularly his philosophy on every day lives. As a Marxian, Henri Lefebvre perceived the human relations as dominated by the powerful class, economical one in particular. Therefore, the urban social spaces are constructed and created and changed according to their economic and political interests. The struggles and strategies of dominating and utilize the urban spaces are full of conflics between the powerfull and the poor ones. It is common and real urban phenomena nowadays in the globalization era, in most of the cities.