Originally published in 1970, The Urban Revolution marked Henri Lefebvre's first sustained
critique of urban society, a work in which he pioneered the use of semiotic, structuralist, and
poststructuralist methodologies in analyzing the development of the urban environment.
Although it is widely considered a foundational book in contemporary thinking about the city,
The Urban Revolution has never been translated into English—until now. This first English
edition, deftly translated by Robert Bononno, makes available to a broad audience …