The urban revolution according to Lefebvre and his critics

Juval Portugali

Chapter 11 in The Second Urban Revolution, 2025, pp 272-285 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: This chapter returns to the starting point of the book by focusing on Lefebvre's thesis regarding the urban revolution (concisely introduced in the Introduction). It begins by presenting Lefebvre's thesis in full and continues with reactions from Manuel Castells, a disciple and critic of Lefebvre, in his book The Urban Question; from David Harvey, who, in a series of books, adopted the Lefebvrian thesis but with a “bear hug” that took the soul out of it; that is, the urban revolution. As shown in this chapter, in retrospect, it is evident that while on the one hand Lefebvre's predictions are being verified, on the other hand, his central thesis – that this is a revolution – is not accepted. Thus postmodernist writers such as Frederic Jameson saw the city in general and Los Angeles in particular as representations of the 21st-century reality; they still rejected the revolution.

Keywords: Castell; Harvey; Postmodernism; Network society; Information city (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035350117
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