[D66] The Right to the City

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https://www.versobooks.com/books/2674-the-right-to-the-city

The Right to the City
A Verso Report
Edited by Verso Books

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November 2017 / 9781788730044

Special eBook collection on the most urgent question of our times: who 
is the city for?

In 1968, the French Marxist philosopher Henri Lefebvre wrote “Le Droit a 
la Ville” (“The Right to the City”), which has become one of the most 
essential texts in radical geography and urban studies. It transformed 
the way we think about urban life and the right to make and remake our 
cities, and ourselves. Fifty years on, the question of who is the city 
is for, and why, is more urgent than ever.

In this special Verso report, some of the most important voices in the 
current debate on the right to city are gathered to debate what Lefebvre 
originally intended and what it might mean today within the neoliberal 
urban world. How these ideas help us to understand the contemporary 
struggle in housing; how to protest gentrification; the privatisation of 
public spaces; and the demand for places of self expression, and the 
security of home. The collection also explores how these ideas can be 
used in other fields—such as digital space and the Internet of Things.

Contributors include David Adler, Neil Brenner, Bradley Garrett, Andrea 
Gibbons, Huw Lemmey, David Madden & Peter Marcuse, Andy Merrifield, Anna 
Minton, Don Mitchell, Rebecca Omonira-Oyekanmi, Nina Power, Dubravka 
Sekulić, Joe Shaw & Mark Graham, and Alex Vasudevan.

See all our Cities and Architecture reading here.