Daniel Campo’s The Accidental Playground is the result of an ethnographic action-oriented analysis focussed on the life course of a waterfront at Williamsburg’s Northside (also known as the Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal, BEDT). The context of the study is related with the redevelopment of its neighbourhood during the New York’s revitalization programme launched in the early 1990s.

The poem published in Society & Space is an eloquent and passionate cry from the streets, that combines anger, passion and empathy, but it is also a scholarly analysis, that deliberately works in (and reworks) academic insights.

In this interview, Łukasz Stanek discusses the work of Henri Lefebvre and his latest book, "Henri Lefebvre on Space: Architecture, Urban Research, and the Production of Theory".

In my article ‘The right to infrastructure’ that appears in Society and Space 32(2), I report on fieldwork I have been carrying out with grassroots and guerrilla architectural collectives (Basurama, Zuloark) in Madrid over the past four years. These collectives have developed some original technical and auto-constructive practices that, I suggest, may be thought of as prototypes for a type of open-source urbanism.

More than anything, what this brief article makes clear is the vagueness with which Lefebvre had always understood the notions of the city and the urban as well as the urgent need we have today to clarify the latter.