Modern and urban crisis: the importance of a different agenda of research

Abstract

The present work aims to provide a different and broad spectrum of analysis to the urban crisis. It is based on the premise that the world is going through a crisis on its philosophical model and on its planning/urban model. Based on that premise it understands that a complete alteration on the citizens and governments behavior is needed. Built under a Lefebvrian/Marxist matrix it points out to the urgency of modifying not only the relations between people and State but mainly between those two and the capitalist system. Its main goal is to problematize the need and validity of a specific research agenda that has already started in some centers, but that must spread throughout the globe.