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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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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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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.
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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Martin Wagner and the politics of capitalist urbanization
It’s been almost a month since I arrived in Cambridge to conduct a research on the work of Martin Wagner at Harvard during his appointment as a professor at the Graduate School of Design. Wagner —an engineer and planner, head … Continue reading
Posted in Arquitectura y crítica, Comunes, David Harvey, Espacio social, Espacio y política, Martin Wagner, Neil Brenner, Sin categoría, Urban politics, Urban Theory Lab, Urbanismo crítico
Tagged Architecture and Politics, Commons, Gentrification, Graduate School of Design, GSD, Harvard University, Martin Wagner, Modern architecture, Modern urbanism, Modernism, Neoliberal urbanism, Planning, Political economy, Politics, Walter Gropius, Weimar Republic
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Especial CIUr 100 | Celebrando cien entregas de investigación urbanística
Se ha publicado el número 100 de Cuadernos de Investigación Urbanística. Aunque habitualmente CIUr lanza números monográficos con un sólo trabajo, en esta ocasión se trata de un especial de 150 páginas con 31 contribuciones de profesores del Departamento de … Continue reading
Posted in Comunes, Diseño urbano, DUyOT, Espacio público, Espacio social, Estudios urbanos / Urban Studies, Urbanismo crítico, Urbanismo España, Urbanismo sostenible, Urbanismo y sociedad
Tagged Cuadernos de investigación urbanística, DUyOT, Estudios Urbanos, ETSAM, Número especial, Revistas de urbanismo, UPM
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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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García Linera y Negri: forma-comunidad y poder constituyente
Les dejo el vídeo de la escala en Barcelona de la reciente gira conjunta de Álvaro García Linera y Toni Negri, presentados por Carlos Prieto en la Universitat de Barcelona. Más interesante García Linera que Negri, quizá por preocupaciones personales … Continue reading
¿Diseñar los comunes urbanos?
Un interesante encuentro reunió hace poco a Atelier d’architecture autogérée, Assembly SE8 y Public Works en LSE con motivo del concurso ‘Designing the urban commons’. Tanto el coloquio como el concurso fueron organizados por Theatrum Mundi. Pueden encontrar el audio … Continue reading
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