Politics, embodiment, everyday life: Lefebvre and spaces of organizing
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Organisational Space and Beyond: The Significance of Henri Lefebvre for Organisation Studies. ed. / Varda Wasserman; Karen Dale; Sytze F. Kingma. London: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2018. p. 27-45.
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T1 - Politics, embodiment, everyday life
T2 - Lefebvre and spaces of organizing
AU - Beyes, Timon
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - In 1986, Henri Lefebvre and the French architects Serge Renaudie and Pierre Guilbaud submitted a proposal for the International Competition for the New Belgrade Urban Structure Improvement, held by the City of Belgrade in the former Yugoslavia. The call had asked for designs to improve ‘the unfinished plan of the central zone and the enlargement of the modern city’ (Blagojevic´, 2009: 120). The proposal, however, began by rejecting the assumptions of definitive design and detailed planning. ‘We can only rejoice’, Lefebvre and the architects stated, ‘that Novi Beograd is unfinished’ (Renaudie et al., 2009: 6). To continue the ‘neo-rationalist’ types of organizing the city and its zoning would fail; ‘the resistance of the population … expresses an important loss of the “organizational message” ’ (p. 8). To adopt an eclectic ‘post-modern historicism’ would not work either, provoking merely endless disagreement on the epoch and styles best adaptable to the present. ‘As with every dynamic organization’, the authors wrote, ‘cities are fluid and mobile and any attempt to stop them in order to analyse and represent them risks killing them’ (p. 11).
AB - In 1986, Henri Lefebvre and the French architects Serge Renaudie and Pierre Guilbaud submitted a proposal for the International Competition for the New Belgrade Urban Structure Improvement, held by the City of Belgrade in the former Yugoslavia. The call had asked for designs to improve ‘the unfinished plan of the central zone and the enlargement of the modern city’ (Blagojevic´, 2009: 120). The proposal, however, began by rejecting the assumptions of definitive design and detailed planning. ‘We can only rejoice’, Lefebvre and the architects stated, ‘that Novi Beograd is unfinished’ (Renaudie et al., 2009: 6). To continue the ‘neo-rationalist’ types of organizing the city and its zoning would fail; ‘the resistance of the population … expresses an important loss of the “organizational message” ’ (p. 8). To adopt an eclectic ‘post-modern historicism’ would not work either, provoking merely endless disagreement on the epoch and styles best adaptable to the present. ‘As with every dynamic organization’, the authors wrote, ‘cities are fluid and mobile and any attempt to stop them in order to analyse and represent them risks killing them’ (p. 11).
KW - Sociology
KW - Cultural studies
U2 - 10.4324/9781315302430
DO - 10.4324/9781315302430
M3 - Contributions to collected editions/anthologies
SN - 9781138236400
SP - 27
EP - 45
BT - Organisational Space and Beyond
A2 - Wasserman, Varda
A2 - Dale, Karen
A2 - Kingma, Sytze F.
PB - Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
CY - London
ER -