{"title":"Henri Lefebvre’s Critique of Le Corbusier’s Urban Functionalism","authors":"F. Biagi","doi":"10.1080/21598282.2021.2010587","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In this article, the author focuses on Henri Lefebvre’s critique of urban functionalism, whose “founding father” is recognized as Le Corbusier. The aim is to explain how Lefebvre studied urban functionalism in order to develop an innovative critique of the Fordist modernity that developed in France following the Second World War. For the French sociologist, investigating urban functionalism thus meant investigating, from the spatial point of view, the way in which the capitalist development of the last century was modernized. ARTICLE HISTORY Received 25 March 2020 Revised 21 November 2020 Accepted 20 October 2021","PeriodicalId":43179,"journal":{"name":"International Critical Thought","volume":"21 5 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.4000,"publicationDate":"2021-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"International Critical Thought","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/21598282.2021.2010587","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"POLITICAL SCIENCE","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In this article, the author focuses on Henri Lefebvre’s critique of urban functionalism, whose “founding father” is recognized as Le Corbusier. The aim is to explain how Lefebvre studied urban functionalism in order to develop an innovative critique of the Fordist modernity that developed in France following the Second World War. For the French sociologist, investigating urban functionalism thus meant investigating, from the spatial point of view, the way in which the capitalist development of the last century was modernized. ARTICLE HISTORY Received 25 March 2020 Revised 21 November 2020 Accepted 20 October 2021