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22. Lefebvre, The Urban Revolution. Here, and in the chapter to follow, I’ve
nudged Robert Bononno’s English translation subject to my own reading
of the 1970 original La révolution urbaine.
23. “Executive Summary,” Second Session of the World Urban Forum,
Barcelona, Spain, September 13–17, 2004. See www.unhabitat.org/
wuf/2004/default.asp
Chapter 5
1. Lefebvre, La révolution urbaine (Gallimard, Paris, 1970), p. 13; The
Urban Revolution, trans. Robert Bononno (Minnesota University Press,
Minneapolis, 2003), pp. 5–6. In what follows, I cite parenthetically, using
this ordering, page numbers from both editions.
2. David Harvey, Social Justice and the City (Edward Arnold, London, 1973),
pp. 302–303.
3. Ibid., p. 303.
4. See David Harvey, The Urban Experience (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1989),
pp. 59-89.
5. David Harvey, The Urbanization of Capital (Basil Blackwell, Oxford,
1985).
6. David Harvey, “Possible Urban Worlds: A Review Essay,” City and
Community (March 2004): 83–89.
7. Lefebvre, L’idéologie structuraliste (Anthropos, Paris, 1975), p. 70. The
bulk of the essays in this collection first appeared four years earlier in Audelà
du structuralisme.
8. L’idéologie structuraliste, p. 11. “Today,” Lefebvre said, in his 1975 preface,
“where the structuralists see themselves as the object of convergent
attacks, the sole regret of this author is to not have taken his polemic further
and pushed it more forcefully.”
9. Ironically, this schema is almost protoregulationist in design, a school
whose intellectual roots are often associated with Althusser, Lefebvre’s
antihumanist archenemy. Lefebvre’s francophone interpreters, people
like Jacques Guigou and Remi Hess, talk of his post-’68 “Althusserian
dérive.” The subtitle alone of The Survival of Capitalism speaks volumes:
“The Reproduction of Relations of Production.” The duo likewise claims
Lefebvre’s 1970s œuvre contained analysis that could be construed as
“institutional,” reflecting society’s (and Lefebvre’s own?) loss of revolutionary
momentum. See Remi Hess, “Préface à la troisième édition de ‘La
survie du capitalisme’ ”; and Jacques Guigou, “La place d’Henri Lefebvre
dans le Collège invisible, d’une critique des superstructures à l’analyse
institutionelle.” For more on Althusser and the reproduction of capitalist
social relations, see my Metromarxism, pp. 114–18.
10. With twenty-years hindsight, David Harvey confirmed what Lefebvre
here only hints: the passage “from managerialism to entrepreneurialism”
in urban and global governance. See “From Managerialism to
Entrepreneurialism: The Transformation in Urban Governance in Late
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