The Urban Revolution

Originally published in 1970, The Urban Revolution marked Henri Lefebvre's first sustained critique of urban society, a work in which he pioneered the use of semiotic, structuralist, and poststructuralist methodologies in analyzing the development of the urban environment. Although it is widely considered a foundational book in contemporary thinking about the city, The Urban Re...

Originally published in 1970, The Urban Revolution marked Henri Lefebvre's first sustained critique of urban society, a work in which he pioneered the use of semiotic, structuralist, and poststructuralist methodologies in analyzing the development of the urban environment. Although it is widely considered a foundational book in contemporary thinking about the city, The Urban Revolution has never been translated into English-until now. This first English edition, deftly translated by Robert Bononno, makes available to a broad audience Lefebvre's sophisticated insights into the urban dimensions of ???.

亨利·列斐伏尔（Henri Lefebvre,1901-1991），20世纪法国著名的哲学家、社会学家、政治学家、建筑理论家与都市规划思想家。代表作有《辩证唯物主义》《日常生活批判》《现代世界中的日常生活》《空间的生产》。《都市革命》一书是举世公认的都市马克思主义的奠基之作。