In the foreword of the English translation of The Urban Revolution, Neil Smith speaks about one of the most disputable thesis submitted by Lefebvre to ‘‘urban process’’. The thesis is this: ‘‘the problematic of industrialization, which has dominated capitalist societies for more than two centuries, is increasingly superseded by the urban’’. That is to say: ‘‘the urban problematic becomes predominant’’. As Kanishka explains this argument, progressed through the wake of ‘‘the political crisis of 1968’’, not only preserved the fact that historical conjuncture represented ‘‘more profoundly a crisis of urban society than a crisis of capitalist industrialism’’, but also posed, as Smith mentioned—in the minds of Lefebvre’s North American readers—a
