Henri Lefebvre's project, developed over decades of research produced a corpus of work that sought to reprioritise the fundamental role of space in the experience and practice of social life. His assertion that there is 'politics of space' provides a challenge to the planning and design of the built environment by emphasising the need to understand the complex of elements involved in 'the production of space'. Lefebvre's approach and his 'cry and demand' for a 'right to the city' reflects the fundamental focus and importance he imparts to the practices, meanings and values associated with the inhabitation and use of the social spaces of everyday life. It will be argued that planning and design theory and practice should seek to address more fully and incorporate Lefebvre's spatial theory as a means to reinvigorate and regenerate the urban as a lived environment, as an oeuvre, as opportunity for inhabitation, festival and play and not merely as a functional habitat impelled by the needs of power and capital.

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RésuméModern graffiti has become a universal urban phenomenon, an almost ubiquitous feature of towns and cities across the world. This paper will situate the practice and production of graffiti within various urban contexts (aesthetic, political, economic, social and semiotic) through the seminal works Henri Lefebvre as a means for analysing and understanding the complexity of the modern urban and to contextualize and explore graffiti's role in challenging and contesting the socio-spatial norms of increasingly privatized and commodified public and social space. That is, to read graffiti as a means for reclaiming and remaking the city as a more humane and just, social space.

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in mobile practices and considers methodological responses, technologies and representational strategies designed to more fully inform our understanding of people's experience of movement through space' (p. 2). As they acknowledge, there is a growing corpus of work within the social sciences not only exploring mobilities, but also explicitly using and theorizing mobile methods. However, as a collected body of work, the book is a good introduction to the field, especially in its nuancing and detailing of the mobilities project. This is wellexemplified in Gayle Letherby's revisiting of her auto/biographical work on train journeys, which draws on the classic work of C. W. Mills (1959) to centre the 'task' of sociology on the relations between history and biography. Her focus is on '. . . "real" travel stories [to] challenge the view that mobility is an "elusive theoretical, social, technical and political construct"' (Uteng and Cresswell 2008: 1) (p. 168): an important and timely endeavour.