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'Der Arbeiter'

<jats:p>In the first chapter of The Urban Revolution, Henri Lefebvre shows the evolution of the city -- from the political city, through the mercantile and industrial city, to its final form, the true 'ur-ban city'. For Lefebvre, industry is something that wasn't born in the city. He asks: 'Was industry associated with the city?' And an-swers: 'One would assume it to be associated with the non-city, the absence or rupture of urban reality.'1 It was the industry that came to the city, lured by the scent of money, and the sweat and blood of its inhabitants. However, Lefevbre's attitude towards the industrial city is dialectical. The industrial city destroyed the remnants of the mercantile city and the political city, but it was a 'creative destruction', which, in fact, elevated the city to a high-er level of development, setting the stage for Lefebvre's 'critical zone', the predicted moment in history in which urbanity be-comes a meta-narrative aligning all other stories, and therefore also includes the politics and economics of the city.</jats:p>