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Category Archives: Espacio y política
Neil Brenner | New Urban Spaces
New Urban Spaces: Urban Theory and the Scale Question, el nuevo libro de Neil Brenner, está disponible desde hace unas semanas en Oxford University Press. Se trata de un extenso desarrollo y reelaboración de textos que cubren el trabajo del … Continue reading
Posted in Economía urbana, Espacio y política, Espacios Críticos, Espais Crítics, Estudios urbanos / Urban Studies, Geografía crítica, Marxism, Materialismo histórico-geográfico, Neil Brenner, Neoliberalismo, Planetary urbanization, Political economy, Politics and space, Sociología urbana, Teoría urbana, Urban politics, Urban studies, Urban Theory Lab, Urbanización
Tagged Economía política, Escala, Neil Brenner, Neoliberalism, Neoliberalization, New State Spaces, New Urban Spaces, Planetary Urbanization, Políticas escalares, Reescalamiento, Urban political economy, Urban Theory Lab, Urbanización planetaria, Urbanization
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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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‘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 … Continue reading
Posted in Conflicto urbano, Derecho a la ciudad, Dispossession, Espacio público, Espacio social, Espacio y política, Gentrificación, Imaginarios urbanos, Sin categoría
Tagged Cinema, Displacement, Gentrificación, Gentrification, Left Hand Rotation, Movies, Renovación urbana, The Wire, Treme, TV series, Urban regeneration, Urban renewal
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Neil Brenner: Teoría urbana crítica y políticas de escala
Acaba de publicarse Neil Brenner: Teoría urbana crítica y políticas de escala, volumen 9 de la colección Espacios Críticos de Icaria que hemos dedicado a nuestro colega y amigo del Urban Theory Lab. Como el resto de entregas en la … Continue reading
Posted in Conflicto urbano, Derecho a la ciudad, Espacio y política, Espacios Críticos, Espais Crítics, Estudios urbanos / Urban Studies, Geografía crítica, Investigación urbanística, Marxismo, Mis publicaciones, Neil Brenner, Neoliberalismo, Planetary urbanization, Planificación urbana y territorial, Political economy, Politics, Politics and space, Sociología urbana, Space and politics, Teoría urbana, Urban politics, Urban studies, Urban Theory Lab, Urbanismo crítico
Tagged Entrevista, Espacios críticos, Globalización, Gobernanza, Icaria, Neil Brenner, Neoliberalismo, Neoliberalización, Políticas de escala, Teoría urbana crítica, Traducción, Urbanización neoliberal, Urbanización planetaria
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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
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Espacio público, Espacio social, Espacio y política, Espacios Críticos, Jean-Pierre Garnier, Sin categoría
Tagged Anarquismo, Can Batlló, Colección Espacios Críticos - Icaria, Espacios críticos, Jean-Pierre Garnier, Manuel Delgado, Marc Dalmau, Nuria Benach, Pere López, Rosa Tello, Sociología urbana
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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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Synthesis: A new justice for the New Urban Agenda
Habitat III is now part of history, and it remains to be seen how the urban futures that figured so prominently in the official discourses will be shaped by the new urban agenda, well-intentioned but vague as it is. As … Continue reading
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