Henri Lefebvre

Henri Lefebvre: Spatial Politics, Everyday Life and the Right to the City provides the first detailed analysis of the relevance and importance of the social theory of Henri Lefebvre for the study of law and the administrative state.

Chris Butler is a Lecturer at the Griffith Law School, Australia. He researches in the areas of critical theory, law and geography, administrative law and urban studies.

PART I: THEORETICAL ORIENTATIONS: Chapter 1.The social theory of Henri Lefebvre; Chapter 2. The production of space; Part II: SPATIAL POLITICS, EVERYDAY LIFE AND THE RIGHT TO THE CITY: Chapter 3. Space, abstraction and law; Chapter 4. State power and the politics of space; Chapter 5. Modernity, inhabitance and the rhythms of everyday life; Chapter 6. The right to the city and the production of differential space; Bibliography.