Everyday Life and Urban Studies

""This exceptional book tackles the everyday from new and challenging perspectives interweaving theories from across the social sciences, humanities and spatial arts. Drawing insights and knowledges from each of these fields, which are also embedded in a rich historical exploration, this book successfully shifts the study of the everyday from a more micro scale to a large canvas posing important questions of relevance to the contemporary unsettled world."" Sophie Watson, Professor, Sociology Department, Open University, Milton Keynes, UK ""This is a novel critical analysis of Lefebvre interpretations that brings together two perspectives that are usually treated in separate fields of study: the analysis of everyday life and of the production of space. It thus allows us to develop a new understanding of the social world."" Christian Schmid, Professor of Sociology, Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich, Switzerland ""It is more than half a century since Lefebvre published the Critique of Everyday Life, but his ideas continue to be a rich source of inspiration for scholars seeking to understand the city by delving into competing practices in and of everyday life. This book is the latest and perhaps most ambitious of such scholarship. By combining empirical materials, methodological innovations, and theoretical groundings, the book provides new insights into the multiple ways in which everyday life shape our urban conditions."" Simin Davoudi, Professor, School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape, Newcastle University, UK