Right to the City

While, for the first time in human history, the number of people living in cities far outnumbered those living in rural areas, the struggles and problems in cities have come to the fore to an unprecedented extent in world history. HenriLefebvre's The Right to the City has also become the basic slogan and idea of a struggle that has become increasingly prominent since its publication in 1968.

In this first book of his in-depth study, Lefebvre shows that the new reality formed under the name of the city means the end of the industrial city and its disintegration into peripheries and suburbs. It also reveals that classes have lost their right to say over the city.

In today's world, where a fundamental political struggle axis such as the recapture of the city right by the urban dispossessed has emerged through collective interventions in the political and economic processes that reproduce the city, "the right to a fair and livable city", which has become the basic slogan of the people of the world struggling to protect their living spaces, is one of the main axes of the anti-capitalist struggle. has become one. The Right to the City has become one of the reference texts that everyone who is directly or indirectly involved with this struggle, thinkers and activists of all fields from politics to sociology, art to philosophy and science, will return to.

This inspiring and founding text by Lefebvre, who took his place as one of the pioneer thinkers who changed the perception of the city and created a new awareness in the history of thought, is a fundamental work that deserves to be at the center of designs on the right to the city, the right to urban life, a new humanism and democracy.
(From the Promotional Bulletin)



Number of Pages: 167

Year of Printing: 2016


Language: Turkish
Publisher: Sel Publishing

First Print Year: 2016

Number of Pages: 167

Language Turkish