Henri Lefebvre: A Critical Introduction - autonomous learning

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Space
I hear the ruin of all space, shattered glass and toppling masonry.
—James Joyce, Ulysses
The Production of Space was Henri Lefebvre’s fifty-seventh book,
the crowning glory of research on cities and spatial questions,
spanning the 1968–74 period, when, aside from lecturing and witnessing
students go into revolt mode, he scribed nine books and
a dozen articles and helped found the journal Espace et société. 1
To write The Production of Space, emeritus-to-be Henri was
given a special stipend from Paris-Nanterre, his employer, and the
densely argued, 485-page tome was worth every centime, reigning
as it does as one of his greatest and most enduring works.
The book, it’s equally been noted, was personally important
to Lefebvre, because it punctuated the end of his truncated yet
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