"This pithy, provocative little book brings Marxist humanism to bear on urban problems as pressing today as they were nearly half-a-century ago. Upsizing cities spell downsizing work, the coming of urban society announces the financialization of space, a crisis of industrial production begets a politics of urban reproduction–all with daunting threats as well as immanent possibilities. Dead for twenty-five years, old man Lefebvre lives on as our most visionary twenty-first-century urban thinker."–Andy Merrifield, author of Metromarxism, Magical Marxism, and The New Urban Question
"Lefebvre's work remains of enduring importance."–Stuart Elden, from the Foreword
