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Spatial Justice and Indigenous Rights

Mar 24, 2017

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Originally posted on Path to the Possible: Just out: the latest issue of Justice Spatiale/Spatial Justice, guest edited by Béatrice Collignon and Irène Hirt, on Spatial Justice and Indigenous People. It is freely accessible (and fully bilingual) here: http://www.jssj.org. Contents: EDITORIAL Anniversary? Philippe GERVAIS-LAMBONY | Frédéric DUFAUX | Aurélie QUENTIN FOCUS 1. Claiming Space to…

The Autonomous City: A History of Urban Squatting

Mar 22, 2017

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Alex Vasudevan’s much awaited new book will be out next month with Verso: A radical history of squatting and the struggle for the right to remake the city, The Autonomous City is the first popular history of squatting as practised in Europe and North America. Alex Vasudevan retraces the struggle for housing in Amsterdam, Berlin,…

Landscape struggles, environmental hegemonies and the politics of urban design

Mar 21, 2017

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in Central Park, Commons, Espacio social, Landscape architecture, Landscape theory, Mis publicaciones, My research, Planning history, Political economy, Political urbanism, Politics, Sin categoría, Space and politics, Urban design, Urban politics, Urban studies

In a previous post I announced the publication of a new article about Central Park in Environment and Planning D, this time focusing on the governmental and strategic role of the park’s schemein the context of local struggles to consolidate or challenge existing hegemonies. For that purpose I elaborated a theoretical framework around the concept…

Elden’s Foucault: The Birth of Power

Mar 16, 2017

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Foucault: The Birth of Power is now available worldwide. The book is published by Polity, and the design fits with Foucault’s Last Decade which came out in 2016. There is a lot about Foucault’s political activism in this second book, so the covers make a nice contrasting pair. More information on the two books here. […]…

Our latest issue and a video abstract – “Prefiguring the State”

Mar 13, 2017

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Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org: The March 2017 issue of Antipode is out now (and available online here). This is the second of our new-look issues; when we launched them in January we said that “…while we look different, we continue to push Geography’s radical and critical edge in a number of ways, many of which will…

CfP: Los años CIAM en España. La otra Modernidad

Mar 9, 2017

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in Arquitectura, Arquitectura y crítica, Historia del urbanismo, Sin categoría

Convocatoria para el envío de ponencias aquí.

Talk at the AA – Thanks and additional materials

Mar 6, 2017

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in Architecture, Arquitectura y crítica, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Planning history

I had a great time during the seminar last week at the AA, where I presented my recent research on planning’s role in the destruction of working-class centralities through several historical illustrations from Germany and the US. This is a new episode of my ‘social history of planning’ project and it was the first time…

El Movimiento Moderno y el Derecho a la Ciudad | Vídeo de la ponencia en IX DOCOMOMO Ibérico

Mar 6, 2017

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in Arquitectura, Arquitectura y crítica, Derecho a la ciudad, Espacio público, Espacio social, Henri Lefebvre, Mis publicaciones, Participación, Sin categoría

El pasado mes de noviembre se celebró el IX Congreso de DOCOMOMO Ibérico ‘Movimiento Moderno, Patrimonio Cultural y Sociedad’, en el que intervine como uno de los ponentes invitados de la segunda jornada, dedicada a la dimensión social de los problemas discutidos en el encuentro. El vídeo de mi presentación, ‘El Movimiento Moderno y el…

‘Real Estate Fictions’ by Left Hand Rotation

Feb 28, 2017

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in Conflicto urbano, Derecho a la ciudad, Dispossession, Espacio público, Espacio social, Espacio y política, Gentrificación, Imaginarios urbanos, Sin categoría

Here is the last clip collection from Left Hand Rotation’s Real State Fiction series, where they glean extracts, dialogues and shots from movies dealing with gentrification, displacement, eviction, dilapidation, city branding and other contemporary urban conflicts. The range of genres and materials in this and previous collections is broad, between dark and amusing: from Jarmusch…

Planning the dispossession of centrality | Talk at the AA

Feb 22, 2017

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in Architecture, Commons, Dispossession, Enclosure, Modernism, Planning history, Political economy, Politics, Politics and space, Sin categoría, Social History of Planning

I’ll be giving a talk at the AA School of Architecture next week (March 1st, 6:30PM, more info here), in the context of the PhD programme coordinated by Maria S. Giudici and Pier Vittorio Aureli. As I mentioned in a previous post they are doing amazing work with their students on the topics of territory,…

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