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Category Archives: Enclosure
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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Dispossession and territory at the AA School of Architecture
Next week I will be at the AA School of Architecture to discuss the work of students of Diploma 14, the unit led by Pier Vittorio Aureli and Maria Shéhérazade Giudici. I was astonished to discover the subject they chose … Continue reading
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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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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¿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
New article in Antipode | ‘Capitalist formations of enclosure: space and the extinction of the commons’
My latest article, ‘Capitalist formations of enclosure: space and the extinction of the commons’, is now available online at the early view webpage of Antipode. This was a great opportunity to sum up some of my recent explorations of the … Continue reading
Posted in Commons, Comunes, Enclosure, Historia del urbanismo, Materialismo histórico-geográfico, Mis publicaciones, Parliamentary Enclosure, Space and politics
Tagged Antipode, Álvaro Sevilla Buitrago, Commodification, Commons, Critical geography, Dispossession, Enclosure, Marketization, Privatization, Radical geography, Spatial techniques, Spatial theory
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Contra los comunes, una vez más | Nuevas oleadas de expolio y ‘cercamientos’ en la España rural
Seguramente muchos de los lectores de este blog habrán visto ya el documental Stop al Expolio de los Bienes Comunales, rodado hace un par de años, una iniciativa de la plataforma del mismo nombre, la Plataforma para la Defensa de … Continue reading
Publicaciones actualizadas y artículos en acceso libre
He estado actualizando la página de ‘Publicaciones’ del blog, incluyendo alguna referencia reciente que faltaba (la publicación del artículo sobre Central Park en Social & Cultural Geography, de la que escribí durante la realización pero que no he llegado a … Continue reading
Posted in Comunes, Enclosure, Escritura científica, Espacio público, Espacio y política, Estudios urbanos / Urban Studies, Investigación urbanística, Mis publicaciones
Tagged Artículos de urbanismo y planificación, Marx Foucault, Materialismo histórico-geográfico, Open access, Teoría urbana crítica
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Libros de verano
En unos días se cierra el curso —literalmente, porque la Escuela de Arquitectura de Madrid echa el candado— y toca pensar en las lecturas estivales. En realidad alguno de los libros que esperan llevan en la mesa un par de … Continue reading
Posted in David Harvey, Enclosure
Tagged David Harvey, Ernst May. 1886-1970, Lecturas de verano, Lewis Mumford, Libros de verano, Peter Linebaugh, Seventeen contradictions and the end of capitalism, Stop Thief!, The City in History, The Landscape of Modernity. New York City 1900-1940, The Slum and the Ghetto. Neighborhood Deterioration and Middle-Class Reform. Chicago 1880-1930
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