Introduction

pp. 1-16

in: Benjamin Fraser, Toward an urban cultural studies, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015

Abstract

The goal of Toward an Urban Cultural Studies is to provide a model for integrating two distinct strains of cultural inquiry—urban studies and cultural studies—as a concertedly interdisciplinary way of approaching the culture(s) of cities. Mobilizing the thought of French spatial theorist and urban philosopher Henri Lefebvre (1901–1991), it explores the ground common to both of these areas and, moreover, articulates in general terms a method for urban cultural studies research.