Title: Henri Lefebvre, the Right to the CIty and the New Metropolitan Mainstream | Inura-nmm Wiki | Fandom
Headings: Henri Lefebvre, the Right to the CIty and the New Metropolitan Mainstream
Henri Lefebvre, the Right to the CIty and the New Metropolitan Mainstream
Contents
Struggles for the city
The crisis of the city
The right to the city
Struggles for the city
Complete urbanization and the specificity of the urban
Urban social movements
Complete urbanization
The urban form: centrality
Urban space–time: difference
The urban as concrete utopia
The production of urban space
Urban practice
The definition of the urban
The urban experience
Urbanization and urbanity
The new metropolitan mainstream and the commodification
of the urban
The rediscovery of the urban
The new metropolitan mainstream
The commodification of the urban
Appropriation and domination
Centralization and peripheralization
The urban as concrete utopia
Theory and practice
The right to the city today
Possible urban worlds
Notes
References

Content: In recent years, moreover, there have been increasing instances of urban movements in major East Asian cities such as Hong Kong, Beijing, and Seoul. Quite different strategies of contestation were adopted in struggles to enhance the participation of less privileged and socially disadvantaged groups: especially in the neglected inner-city districts and suburbs of the West, which in some cases developed into “territorial traps,” there were many waves of struggle against social exclusion. There has been a long history of resurging revolts and clashes in the French banlieues, especially in and around Paris. Other countries also experienced uprisings in neglected neighborhoods, such as in1981 in London’s Brixton district, mainly populated by an African-Caribbean community, or in 1992 in South Central LA, to mention only two examples. Even longer is the list of urban struggles in the exploding megacities of the global South. In particular, these include social movements in informal settlements and shantytowns against displacement and neighborhood destruction as well as often successful struggles for improved living conditions and infrastructure. In Latin America during the 1980s and 1990s, urban movements were formed that have in some cases become significant political forces, including at the national level. For instance, major urban social movements developed in Mexico City after the devastating earthquake of 1985, or in São Paulo during the same period. Despite the many differences, there are obvious similarities among these urban struggles: