Author: asevillab
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Synthesis: A new justice for the New Urban Agenda
Habitat III is now part of history, and it remains to be seen how the urban futures that figured so prominently in the official discourses will be shaped by the new urban agenda, well-intentioned but vague as it is. As someone who worked for several years in a UN initiative related to Habitat II’s program…
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Teresa Caldeira on street cultures and informal urbanisms
An interesting short interview with Teresa Caldeira via urbanNext, discussing the dangers and problems of architectural discourses aestheticizing so-called informal urbanisms and street cultures.
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Nomos of the Body
Originally posted on machines of urbanization: An audio tour contribution for ‘Hesitant desire shall flourish in a soil not too strong‘, a project by Ilona Sagar. https://soundcloud.com/ilona-dorota-sagar/nomos
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New Towns in the 21st Century: Past, Present, Prospects
Here is the video of a series of talks and roundtable on New Town urbanism, celebrated at Harvard GSD last week, with speakers from the fields of design, planning and real estate.
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I Premio de Investigación de Economía Urbana de Madrid
El Área de Gobierno de Economía y Hacienda del Ayuntamiento de Madrid ha convocado el I Premio de Investigación de Economía Urbana de Madrid, destinado a investigadores en etapas tempranas de su labor—se admiten trabajos de doctorado y máster centrados en el funcionamiento de la economía local y la dotación de los premios es bastante…
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David Harvey Marx & Capital Lecture 1: Capital as Value in Motion
David Harvey’s new series of talks on Marx and Capital at CUNY will be available on YouTube. Here is the first lecture, delivered a few weeks ago.
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New open access book reviews for autumn
Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org: We’ve published some great reviews in recent months… Colombia has been in the headlines recently, and those following the referendum’s vicissitudes will no doubt find Kate Maclean’s Social Urbanism and the Politics of Violence: The Medellín Miracle (reviewed here by Seth Schindler, University of Sheffield) fascinating. Both Jonathan Darling (University of Manchester) and Glenda Garelli (QMUL)…
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Interview about Foucault’s Last Decade on New Books in Critical Theory (audio)
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies: A few weeks ago I was interviewed by Dave O’Brien of Goldsmiths about Foucault’s Last Decade for the New Books in Critical Theory series. The recording is now available as a podcast: Download (Duration: 47:54 — 21.9MB) or to stream at the series website. Why did Michel Foucault radically recast…
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Video abstract – Diarmaid Kelliher’s “Constructing a Culture of Solidarity: London and the British Coalfields in the Long 1970s”
Originally posted on AntipodeFoundation.org: Last week on AntipodeFoundation.org we featured all the papers forthcoming in January 2017 in Antipode 49(1). Here we delve a bit deeper, looking at Diarmaid Kelliher’s contribution, “Constructing a Culture of Solidarity: London and the British Coalfields in the Long 1970s”. When we spoke with him about his essay, Diarmaid explained:…
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