Author: asevillab
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Verso’s 2015 selection, free ebook
Verso has published its traditional free end-of-year compilation with excerpts from books and New Left Review issues, this time including material by Patrick Cockburn, John Berger, Tariq Ali and Pablo Iglesias, amongst others. You can also download last year’s selection here.
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Reframing the World as One City | A debate forum in urbanNext
A group of architects and designers, in collaboration with Acta Publishers, recently launched the web project urbanNext, a site devoted to explore the role an expanded urban condition plays in shaping and rethinking architecture and urbanism. The content is broad and variegated, dealing with a number of collateral disciplines and related fields of practice, from…
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Debt crisis and land dispossession in Greece as part of the global ‘land fever’
Costis Hadjimichalis, Professor Emeritus at Harokopio University, Athens, is presenting the results of his research on current land grabbing processes and spatial financialization in Greece, next week in Madrid. The event is part of the series of invited presentations of our Master in Town and Regional Planning at the Politécnica, in cooperation with Contested Cities Madrid.…
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El Edificio España a debate
El blog del UEDXX publica una nota breve sobre el Edificio España. Nada nuevo en relación a la polémica actual, viva en las periódicos con mayor detalle desde hace meses. La introducción del texto ayuda sin embargo a comprender la continuidad con la tónica general de permisividad con la promoción privada que ha configurado Madrid…
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Waldheim | Landscape as Urbanism
Charles Waldheim presents his book Landscape as Urbanism: A General Theory (Princeton University Press, forthcoming) at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. The talk includes an interesting discussion about the discursive constitution of disciplines. Waldheim draws on Harvey’s notion of ‘spatial fix’ to identify particular moments in the history of architecture, landscape architecture and urbanism…
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Volume 33 Issue 5 now out – currently open access
New issue of Society and Space — the whole journal archive is currently open access for a limited period.
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The politics of architecture | Mouffe, Aureli, Whiting et al
Following up on the previous post, you can find below an interesting set of presentations about the politics of architecture by Chantal Mouffe, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Reinhold Martin, Ines Weizman and Sarah Whiting, and the ensuing discussion at the Architectural Association in an event organized by The Architecture Exchange. The roundtable is especially stimulating, with…
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CfP The Architecture of Capital
Call for papers for an interesting panel in the next AAG meeting in San Francisco. More info here. ———————– The Architecture of Capital: Rethinking the Geographies of Design in a Planetary Moment AAG Annual Meeting, San Francisco, March 29-April 2, 2016 Organizers Adam Kaasa, Royal College of Art Pushpa Arabindoo, University College London SUPPORTED BY…
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