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Category Archives: Diseño urbano
Paul Chatterton – Unlocking Sustainable Cities: A Manifesto for Real Change
Paul Chatterton, Unlocking Sustainable Cities: A Manifesto for Real Change, forthcoming with Pluto this month. This book is a manifesto for real urban change. Today, our urban areas are held back by corporate greed, loss of public space and rising … Continue reading
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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Modernism and the Right to the City | Talk at DO.CO.MO.MO Conference
Next week I will be giving a keynote speech at the DO.CO.MO.MO. Conference (Iberian section) in San Sebastián. My talk is entitled ‘Modernism and the Right to the City’, which will strike many as contradictory, since Lefebvre’s notion synthesized his … Continue reading
Posted in Architectural design, Arquitectura y crítica, Convocatorias, Derecho a la ciudad, Diseño urbano, Espacio social, Espacio y política, Henri Lefebvre, Modernism, Planning history, Sin categoría, Teoría urbana, Urban design, Urban studies, Urbanismo crítico, Vivienda social
Tagged André Lurçat, Derecho a la ciudad, DOCOMOMO, DOMOMOMO Ibérico, Henri Lefebvre, Right to the City, Urban design
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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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Gramsci and Foucault in Central Park | New article in Society and Space
My latest article, ‘Gramsci and Foucault in Central Park: Environmental hegemonies, pedagogical spaces and integral state formations’, is now available online on the early view webpage of Environment and Planning D: Society and Space (requires subscription). The piece draws on … Continue reading
Posted in Antonio Gramsci, Arquitectura y crítica, Central Park, Diseño urbano, Espacio público, Espacio y política, Historia del urbanismo, Landscape architecture, Landscape theory, Marxism, Marxismo, Michel Foucault, Mis publicaciones, Nueva York, Planning history, Political urbanism, Politics, Social History of Planning, Space and politics, Urban design, Urbanismo crítico
Tagged Antonio Gramsci, Central Park, Design, Frederick Law Olmsted, Governmentality, Hegemony, Integral state, Landscape architecture, Landscape history, Michel Foucault, Planning history, Public space, Society and Space, Space and politics, State, Urbanism
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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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H&M, 56 Leonard… arquitectura “comprometida”
En Bangladesh crece la cifra de fallecidos por el terrible atentado que una vez más —se trata de una tragedia familiar en la historia de la industrialización— una peculiar conjunción de capitalismo global y local perpetra contra la vida de … Continue reading
¿Urbanismo perezoso?
La etiqueta que nos faltaba: lazy urbanism, o el diseño de la ciudad pensado para “The Dude” Lebowski… No, ahora en serio, aquí un listado más de recetas básicas para un urbanismo de proximidad, sostenible, justo y eficiente, visto desde … Continue reading
Posted in Diseño urbano, Smart cities, Urbanismo sostenible
Tagged Creative city, Lazy urbanism
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Errores monumentales en la historia del urbanismo: Cumbernauld
Cumbernauld, new town creada a mediados de la década de 1950 en el área metropolitana de Glasgow, es uno de los ejemplos más tristes y famosos de lo mal que puede llegar a funcionar una determinada articulación de políticas urbanísticas … Continue reading
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