A redemption of art

"To put art at the service of the urban does not mean to prettify urban space with works of art. This parody of the possible is a caricature. Rather, this means that time-spaces become works of art and that former art reconsiders itself as a source and model of appropriation of space and time. . . . In other words, the future of art is not artistic, but urban, because the future of 'man' [sic] is not discovered in the cosmos, or in the people, or in production, but in urban society."

- Henri Lefebvre, The right to the city, 1974

Starting from this passage, I wrote a redemption of ART in the conclusion of my book, as a useful category to define urban spatial production. This URBAN ART can be, as Lefebvre suggested, the art of inclusive, plural, agonistic cities: urban art as an art of the city, not in the city or about the city; not for the city or like the city; but THE ART OF PRODUCING THE CITY.