The article of the French philosopher of the New Urbanism – Henri Lefebvre – represents  philosophical grounds of this concept and introduces its basic principles. The problem of the new urbanism in the philosophical statement is purposeful creation and management of social life equal to or higher than the life generated by history. We can assume that this problem will be resolved by successive approximations, fumbles, bug fixes that did not exclude shocks resulting from ingenious initiatives, inventions or discoveries. These methodological reflections have to question, inter alia, the primacy of the technical approach.