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Category Archives: Commons
Kristin Ross on the political ecology of ZADs and free communes
Here is the video of a recent talk by Kristin Ross at an event organized by the Critical Theory Workshop in the University of Pennsylvania. Ross focuses on the experience of the ZAD (Zone à défendre, Zone to be defended) … Continue reading
Posted in Anarchism, Commons
Tagged Commune, Critical Theory Workshop, Infrastructure, Kristin Ross, Mauvasie Troupe, Nantes, No TAV, Notre Dame des Landes, Occupation, Paris, Political ecology, Sabotage, Squat, ZAD
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Back to the blog
It has been almost six months since the last post on this blog — I had not realized that it had reached over 1,000 followers during this period, thank you all for reading! Besides the typically frantic teaching and management … Continue reading
Posted in Commons, Comunes, Crisis, Dictatorships and Urbanism, Diseño urbano, Dispossession, Espacio y política, Historia del urbanismo, Landscape architecture, Landscape theory, Martin Wagner, Mis publicaciones, My research, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Planning history, Political economy, Politics, Politics and space, Social History of Planning, Teoría urbana, Urban design, Urban Theory Lab
Tagged 1968, 1977, 68, Alexander Vasudevan, Autonomía, Autonomy, Berlin, Costis Hadjimichalis, Crisis Spaces, Hans Bernhard Reichow, Henri Lefebvre, I Volsci, Italia, Italy, Jeanne Haffner, Julia Smachylo, Leberecht Migge, Lotta Continua, Ludwig Hilberseimer, Madrid Plan General 1985, Manuel Castells, Martin Wagner, May 68, Michael Chieffalo, Monumento a los Caídos, Neil Gray, New Geographies, Pamplona, PGOU85, Potere Operaio, Powers of the City, Primo Maggio, Quaderni Piacentini, Rosso, Simon Gunn, The City of Autonomy, Tom Hulme, Urban Theory Lab, Weimar Berlin, Weimar Republic
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Mapping Workers’ Councils, 1917-1927
libcom.org has launched a very interesting initiative to map workers’ councils as they spread across Europe and beyond in the years following the 1917 revolutions in Russia. Each case includes a reference to articles or books where more information can … Continue reading
Posted in Cartografías / Representaciones del espacio, Commons, Espacio social, Espacio y política, Marxism, Materialismo histórico-geográfico, Movimientos sociales
Tagged 1917, Autonomy, Berlin, Commons, Communism, Consejos obreros, England, Frankfurt, Geography, Germany, Italy, Map, Norway, Postwar, Russian revolution, Socialism, Soviets, United Kingdom, Workers' councils
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Landscape struggles, environmental hegemonies and the politics of urban design
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 … Continue reading
Posted 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
Tagged Antonio Gramsci, Article, Central Park, Design politics, Environment, Environmental hegemony, Hegemony, Landscape design, Michel Foucault, Parks, Planning, Planning history, Society and Space, Urban design
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Planning the dispossession of centrality | Talk at the AA
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Commons, Dispossession, Enclosure, Modernism, Planning history, Political economy, Politics, Politics and space, Sin categoría, Social History of Planning
Tagged AA School of Architecture, Commons, Displacement, Dispossession, Enclosure, Original accumulation, Planning, Planning history, Primitive accumulation, Representation, Urban design
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Reclaiming the Commons | Critical art and translocality
Next week I will join a number of artists, activists and scholars at Hochschule Luzern – Design & Kunst to participate in the symposium ‘How critique becomes translocal – Reclaiming the commons’. Here is the presentation of the event: In … Continue reading
Common goods | Interview with Ugo Mattei
An interview with Ugo Mattei (in Italian) about his book Beni Comuni: Un Manifesto (Laterza, 2012; Spanish translation by Trotta, 2013) and the struggles against water privatization in Italy. He has also published material on this topic in English, e.g. … Continue reading
Posted in Commons, Comunes, Enclosure, Sin categoría
Tagged Beni Comuni, Common goods, Common pool resources, Commons, Interview, Social movements, Ugo Mattei, Water
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Publications
I have updated the list of publications to share the preprint version of ‘Gramsci and Foucault in Central Park: environmental hegemonies, pedagogical spaces and integral state formations’ (via academia.edu)—forthcoming soon in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space—and to include … Continue reading
Parks, politics, and the general interest | Design studio at the School of Madrid
During this semester one of the courses I coordinate, ‘Urbanism and the City,’ will focus on the district of Chamberí, in Madrid, and particularly on some of its sites in contention, especially Parque Santander, better known as Parque del Canal … Continue reading
Posted in Commons, Comunes, Conflicto urbano, Diseño urbano, Espacio público, Espacio y política
Tagged Chamberí, Contested parks, Corazón Verde en Chamberí, Driving range, DUyOT, ETSAM, Gea 21, Golf Canal Isabel II, Madrid, Parque Sí en Chamberí, Participation, Participatory landscape design, Public parks, Public space, Urban design
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A prelude to urban renewal | Martin Wagner against the commons
I have been away from the blog for a little while—this time, in addition to the usual excuses of work overload, due to the paperwork and related administrative hustle and bustle for an upcoming visit to Harvard Graduate School of … Continue reading
Posted in Commons, Comunes, Enclosure, Martin Wagner, My research, Sin categoría, Social History of Planning
Tagged Commons, Enclosure, Espacio social, Extreme territories of urbanization, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Historia social de la planificación, Martin Arboleda, Martin Wagner, Modern architecture, Modern planning, Planetary Urbanization, Planning history, Siedlung, Social history of planning, Urban commons, Urban community, Urban history, Urban renewal, Urban Theory Lab, Walter Gropius
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