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Reconsidering 'Desire' and 'Style': A Lefebvrian Approach to Democratic Orientation in Planning
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Abstract In Henri Lefebvre’s theory, the space in process of social production is regarded as the very condition of accomplishing the ‘desire’ to do or to create something. This article argues that we need to understand the implications of the ‘desire’ in order to make use of his urban theory in today’s plan... view more
In Henri Lefebvre’s theory, the space in process of social production is regarded as the very condition of accomplishing the ‘desire’ to do or to create something. This article argues that we need to understand the implications of the ‘desire’ in order to make use of his urban theory in today’s planning. Introducing this idea, in the 1960s and 1970s, Lefebvre attempted to create our own style of living, that is, to produce the appropriated space which differed from the technocratically-planned spaces where people devote themselves into repetitively fulfilling their needs for specific objects like a laboratory rat in the experiment of looped system. For all his utopian strategies, Lefebvre made practical suggestions on turning our cities more desire-based, that is to say, more democratically designed; it would be very helpful for today’s urban planning to go back to his argument on the difference between ‘desire’ and ‘need’, or the connection between ‘desire’ and the style of living.... view less
Classification
Area Development Planning, Regional Research
Sociology of Settlements and Housing, Urban Sociology
Free Keywords
Henri Lefebvre; cybernanthrope; democratic planning; desire; difference; functionalism; need; orientation; style
Document language
English
Publication Year
2018
Page/Pages
p. 105-111
Journal
Urban Planning, 3 (2018) 3
Issue topic
Urban Planning and the Spatial Ideas of Henri Lefebvre
ISSN
2183-7635
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed