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Fragmented Dhaka : analysing everyday life with Henri Lefebvre's Theory of production of space

Bertuzzo, Elisa T

2009

Overview

\"Bangladesh's capital city Dhaka is one of the world's fastest growing cities, passing from a population of one million to twelve million people in its extended area with three decades (1970-2000). This confronts its inhabitants , observers as well as planners with contradictions that ask for redefining our ways of living in and thinking about the city. In particular, Western conceptions of public space and urban societies are challenged by a symptomatic fragmentation. This empirical study observes the mega city's everyday spaces and situations directly and with a non-generalising approach. By means of ethnographic field research it describes the production of \"enriched\" or multi functional spaces through everyday life practices, recognising in the inhabitants' appropriation and adaptation processes a potential for sustainable mixed forms of urban development. For the first time, Henri Lefebvre's theory of production of space is applied with all of its implications to an empirical study. City and urbanity emerge then as the result of three continuously interacting and interdependent production processes: physical, mental , and social.\"--p. 4 of cover.

• Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag
• Subject: Lefebvre, Henri, 1901-1991 Philosophy. / Lefebvre, Henri, 1901-1991 Criticism and interpretation. / Lefebvre Henri Soziologie Dhaka Stadtleben Raumverhalten Verstädterung. / Human geography Bangladesh Dhaka. / City planning Bangladesh Dhaka. / Dhaka (Bangladesh) Social conditions. / Dhaka (Bangladesh) Economic conditions.
• ISBN: 9783515094047, 3515094040

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HN690.6.D43 B47 2009	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE