REVI EWS SPACE AN D PlACE , HASTE AN D WASTE

space sprung from violence, and is political and institutional. I n the process, Lefebvre fi lls in the glaring hole of Marx's project b y supplying a dialectical material analysis of urban space. In so doing he converts Marx's "land" to "space. • Furthennore, he considers space to have an exchange value. Thus, space becomes a force of production. I t usurps the role originally played by nature. The book concludes with two calls to action. One is political. A call to grassroots arms is the only possibility of altering the hegemony of the cen­ tralized state. The second is a call for increased awareness, the root of all action. "[A)uthentic knowledge of space must address the question of its production" (p. 388). It is for this reason that this work deserves a central