Tuesday, November 1, 2011 – 6pm

The presence of Dr. David Oates and his many maps at October’s Dill Pickle Book Club was a treat. I’m glad so many of you joined us on such a rainy day.

If you missed it, this year’s Dill Pickle Club Book Club will meet once more in November in the warmth of The Waypost to talk about Henri Lefebvre’s 1968 essay Le droit a la ville (The Right to the City). Lefebvre, a French sociologist who died in 1991 at 90 years of age, wrote over 30 titles on cities, everyday life, public space and Marxism. His ideas strongly influenced the Paris riots of May 1968 and the Situationist International, among many others.

Whether you’re coming to Lefebvre’s essay well-steeped in its history or if this is the first of his works you’ll be reading, we plan to discuss how it relates to Portland and, more generally, what it means to live within versus without the city. If you would like to supplement the essay with further reading, here are two articles which help to contextualize it.

Not Bored’s Essay on Henri Lefebvre’s Writings on Cities and The Right to the City
Alison Brown’s The ‘Right to the City’: from Paris 1968 to Rio 2010

Since Blackwell Publishing’s edition of Writings on Cities is hard to come by, please contact marc@dillpickleclub.org for information on how to obtain the title.

The Details:
Dill Pickle Book Club
The Right to the City, published in Writings on Cities
Tuesday, November 1, 6pm
The Waypost | 3120 N. Williams Ave. | FREE