ENVS 2200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Henri Lefebvre, Urban Theory, Commodity Fetishism

• School: York University
• Department: Environmental Studies
• Course: ENVS 2200
• Professor: Roger Keil

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2017-09-15 4:34:00 pm: why does urban theory matter, infrastructural systems become targets and become vulnerable, map is an adaptable document, expression of urban history, record historical change in cities. Social theory and the city: urban sociology study of life and human interaction in cities. Need first learn urban and social theory separately. Urban theory without an outside: the urban has no outside has no other thing to consider. No alternative to urban mode: urban theory and the urban experience, not always different from rural theory, suburban constellations not separate from urban but included. What is theory: a body or system of ideas that explains one or more aspect of reality. Urban theory: wiki: an agglomeration of social theories classical, neo- Reference to social theory assumes the indivisibility of political, social and economic forces. Contingent and the local: the ideas of time (contingent) and space (local).