Renewing Urban Critical Theories

Francesco Biagi is Researcher in Social Theory in the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Lisbon, Portugal, and the author of Henri Lefebvre’s Critical Theory of Space.

• Preface Section 1: Theory and Problems 1. If Urban History Had Been Written Including Women’s Contributions, the Cities Would Be Different. 2. Considering the Urban from the Periphery: The New Urban Issue? 3. Space and Politics in Centre and Periphery: Ginige Vernon Stanley de Silva’s Heretical Thoughts on Country, City and Communism. 4.The Peripheral Condition as the New Urban Question in the Crisis of Capital. 5. Resurfacing the Urban Margins: Rediscovering Danilo Montaldi as an Urban Sociologist. Section 2: The Production of Space as Essential Human Productive Force 6. The Production of Space as the History of the Urban. 7. Lefebvre and the Contradiction of Modernity: A Contribution to the Critique of Capital's Spatial Functionalism. 8.The Hypermodern City of Late Capitalism and the Suspension of Human Temporality: On Henri Lefebvre's Unfinished Philosophical Project of Articulating Time and Space. 9. Should we defend the right to the city? Urban struggles and ‘fragmented rights to the city’. 10. Rethinking the Urban Commons with the Production of Space. Section 3: Unveiling Urban Perspectives Beyond the Global North’s Bubble 11. China, Infrastructure and Global Urbanization: Critique of the Capital Circuits Hypothesis based on Brazil-China Relations. 12. Capitalism, Racism and the Covid-19 Pandemic in Brazil: Notes on an Announced Tragedy. 13. Between the Historicist and the Dehistorised: The Stories of the National Capital Region, India. 14. The Art of Seeing. On Lefebvre, Images, and Chilean Fascism.