Henri Lefebvre was a noted Marxist sociologist and philosopher whose writings on urbanism and space have been widely influential. His books include The Production of Space and (all from Minnesota) The Urban Revolution; State, Space, World: Selected Essays; Dialectical Materialism; and Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment.

Stuart Elden is professor of political theory and geography at the University of Warwick. He is the author of numerous books, including Terror and Territory: The Spatial Extent of Sovereignty (Minnesota, 2009) and The Birth of Territory.

Adam David Morton is professor of political economy at the University of Sydney. He is the author of various books, including Revolution and State in Modern Mexico: The Political Economy of Uneven Development and Global Capitalism, Global War, Global Crisis (with Andreas Bieler).

Robert Bononno has been a translator from French for more than twenty years. His recent nonfiction translations include Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment, by Henri Lefebvre, and Speech Begins after Death, by Michel Foucault and Claude Bonnefoy (both from Minnesota).

From the Rural to the Urban and the Production of Space

Stuart Elden and Adam David Morton

Notes on Translation

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction to From the Rural to the Urban (1969)

2. Problems of Rural Sociology: The Peasant Community and its Historical-Sociological Problems (1949)

3. Social Classes in Rural Areas: Tuscany and the mezzadria classica (1950)

4. Perspectives on Rural Sociology (1953)

5. Social Relations, Population Phenomena, and Labor Problems in the Agricultural Sector of Underdeveloped Countries (1954)

6. The Village Community (1956)

7. The Theory of Ground Rent and Rural Sociology (1956)

8. The Marxist–Leninist Theory of Ground Rent (1964)

9. Introduction to the Psychosociology of Everyday Life (1960)

10. The New Urban Complex: Lacq-Mourenx and the Urban Problems of the New Working Class (1960)

11. Experimental Utopia: For a New Urbanism (1961)

12. The Valley of Campan: A Study in Historical Sociology (1963)

Publication History

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