Reimagining Urban Marxisms

Francesco Biagi earned his PhD in “political sciences” with a focus on “sociology, history and political culture” from the University of Pisa (Italy) in 2018. Currently, he serves as a researcher in “social theory” at CIAUD, the Research Centre for Architecture, Urbanism, and Design at the Lisbon School of Architecture, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal. He is also a fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History, NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, affiliated with IN2PAST – the Associate Laboratory for Research and Innovation in Heritage, Arts, Sustainability, and Territory. His research interests encompass political and social theory, with a particular emphasis on the role of urban–rural relations in the historical transformations of capitalism. He has contributed significantly to this field through his publications, including the monographs: Henri Lefebvre: Una teoria critica dello spazio (2019) and Henri Lefebvre’s Critical Theory of Space (2020). Additionally, he has edited the Italian editions of two volumes by Lefebvre: Espace et politique: Le Droit à la ville II and La pensée marxiste et la ville.

• Exploring Urban Marxisms in the Twenty-first Century: An Introduction Part 1: Theory and Problems 1. Capital Accumulation Through Urbanization: A Synthesis 2. Historicizing (Housing) Financialization, or, the Present and Past of Urban and Housing Studies 3. Urban Society Against the Planetarization of the Metabolic Rift and the Urban 4. Architecture, Capital, and the Subject of the City in the 21st Century 5. For a Marxist Theory of Crisis in the History of Modern and Contemporary Architecture Part 2: The New Housing Question 6. Friedrich Engels as the First Urban Sociologist: Examining Cities and Capitalism from the Nineteenth Century to the Present 7. Gentrification and the Housing Crisis from the Lens of Marxist and Critical Urban Theory 8. Value-Grabbing in the City: Rent Extraction and the Building Safety Crisis 9. Social Struggles around Rental Housing Part 3: Expanding Postcolonial Marxist Horizons: Exploring Possibilities 10. Capitalism, Imperialism and the Urban Question 11. Race and Class in Peripherical Cities from Decolonial Lens: Notes from Brazilian Cities 12. Rethinking Urban Margins of “Lusotopia” Cities in the Light of Lefebvrian Thought 13. Contribution of Marxist Political Theory to a Geography of Crime 14. Contribution of Marxist Political Theory to a Geography of Crime