Henri Lefebvre’s Urban Critical Theory: Rethinking the City against Capitalism

In the article the author highlights the main ways of the Lefebvrian
sociological analysis conceived starting from the transformations of
the city in the Fordist era: From the production of urban marginality,
through the proliferation of precarious living in the France of the
Sixties and Seventies, to recording the gradual disappearance of
the urban–rural dichotomy, that goes into an authentic spatial
hegemony of urbanization processes. The goal is therefore to
highlight the “urban critical theory” of Henri Lefebvre, coming to
discuss the famous meaning of “right to the city,” strongly
interconnected with the concept of “city as an artwork,” that is
the idea of an urban space intended as horizontal and common
design by those who live and inhabit in it.