Acknowledgements vii

Part I Introduction

1 Lost in Transposition-Time, Space and the City 3

Part II Right to the City

2 Preface 63

3 Industrialization and Urbanization 65

4 Philosophy and the City 86

5 Fragmentary Sciences and Urban Reality 94

6 Philosophy of the City and Planning Ideology 97

7 The Specificity of the City 100

8 Continuities and Discontinuities 104

9 Levels of Reality and Analysis 111

10 Town and Country 118

11 Around the Critical Point 122

12 On Urban Form 133

13 Spectral Analysis 139

14 The Right to the City 147

15 Perspective or Prospective? 160

16 The Realiziation of Philosophy 175

17 These on the City, the Urban and Planning 177

Part III Spaces and Politics

18 Introduction 185

19 Institutions of a Post-technological Society 198

Part IV Interviews

20 No Salvation away from the Centre? 205

21 The Urban in Question 209

Part V Elements of Rhythmanalysis

22 Seen from the Window 219

23 Rhythmanalysis of Mediterranean Cities 228

Index 241