Category: Espacio social
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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 be found. The project has just begun and the team is still working on the…
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Renta per cápita en Madrid, 2013
El Ayuntamiento de Madrid ha publicado un estudio tremendamente útil con los datos de renta per cápita desagregados por sección censal, un indicador imprescindible que hasta la fecha era de difícil acceso para los años más recientes. Los datos de base son de 2013 y ofrecen una radiografía de la desigualdad urbana bajo la Gran…
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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 or challenge existing hegemonies. For that purpose I elaborated a theoretical framework around the concept…
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El Movimiento Moderno y el Derecho a la Ciudad | Vídeo de la ponencia en IX DOCOMOMO Ibérico
El pasado mes de noviembre se celebró el IX Congreso de DOCOMOMO Ibérico ‘Movimiento Moderno, Patrimonio Cultural y Sociedad’, en el que intervine como uno de los ponentes invitados de la segunda jornada, dedicada a la dimensión social de los problemas discutidos en el encuentro. El vídeo de mi presentación, ‘El Movimiento Moderno y el…
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‘Real Estate Fictions’ by Left Hand Rotation
Here is the last clip collection from Left Hand Rotation’s Real State Fiction series, where they glean extracts, dialogues and shots from movies dealing with gentrification, displacement, eviction, dilapidation, city branding and other contemporary urban conflicts. The range of genres and materials in this and previous collections is broad, between dark and amusing: from Jarmusch…
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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 for their research/project studios this term, as it totally resonates with the work I have…
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Jean-Pierre Garnier en Can Batlló | Pensar y resistir las geografías del capital
Espais Critics trae al sociólogo anarquista Jean-Pierre Garnier a Barcelona. Será en un coloquio, nada menos que en Can Batlló, insigne okupa local, para presentar el libro que Rosa Tello ha editado para Icaria bajo el título Jean-Pierre Garnier. Un sociólogo urbano a contracorriente. ¡Y tanto! Tengo ganas desde hace tiempo de leer este volumen…
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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 decade-long criticism of Modernist-oriented urban development in postwar France—grands ensembles, ZUPs, etc. In my lecture,…
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The Housing Question Revisited | New Issue of ACME and 2012 panel at AAG wih Neil Smith
ACME 15(3) is out, including a special section—coordinated by Henrik Gutzon Larsen, Anders Lund Hansen, Gordon MacLeod and Tom Slater—devoted to revisit Engels’ The Housing Question through a number of case studies and a transcription of Neil Smith’s intervention on this topic at the 2012 AAG meeting. The video of the whole panel during that…
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A New Justice for the New Urban Agenda | UN-Habitat Conference in Madrid
The Conference ‘A New Justice for the New Urban Agenda’ will take place in Madrid next week, organized by the UN-Habitat Office in Spain. The event will bring together an interesting group of speakers including political authorities, planners, scholars and activists, discussing in advance of the Third UN Conference on Housing and Sustainable Development, HABITAT…
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