Category: Espacio y política

The Housing Question Revisited | New Issue of ACME and 2012 panel at AAG wih Neil Smith

Sep 28, 2016

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in Conflicto urbano, Derecho a la ciudad, Espacio social, Espacio y política, Housing, Neil Smith, Neoliberalismo, The Housing Question, Vivienda social

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…
Publications

Sep 20, 2016

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in Central Park, Commons, Conflicto urbano, Diseño urbano, Espacio y política, Landscape architecture, Mis publicaciones

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 several other links to previous work.
Parks, politics, and the general interest | Design studio at the School of Madrid

Sep 19, 2016

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in Commons, Comunes, Conflicto urbano, Diseño urbano, Espacio público, Espacio y política

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 de Isabel II, a space located over one of the biggest water reservoirs of the…
A New Justice for the New Urban Agenda | UN-Habitat Conference in Madrid

Sep 6, 2016

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in Espacio social, Espacio y política, Regeneración urbana, Sin categoría, Urbanismo sostenible, Urbanismo y sociedad

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…
Gramsci and Foucault in Central Park | New article in Society and Space

Jul 18, 2016

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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

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 the conceptualizations of power and the state by these authors to develop an explicitly political…
Martin Wagner and the politics of capitalist urbanization

Mar 23, 2016

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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

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 of the planning office of Berlin in the second half of the 1920s— arrived here…
Fallece Doreen Massey

Mar 12, 2016

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in Doreen Massey, Espacio social, Espacio y política, Espacios Críticos, Revista Urban, Sin categoría

La última entrada de este blog estuvo dedicada a Doreen Massey y desgraciadamente debo romper el silencio de estas semanas con la muy triste noticia de su fallecimiento ayer a los 72 años. Una verdadera lástima y una pérdida tremenda, especialmente teniendo en cuenta que, al menos hasta hace poco, mostraba una energía envidiable y,…
Doreen Massey | Interview, documentary, and the work of translating theory

Jan 26, 2016

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in Doreen Massey, Espacio social, Espacio y política, Geografía crítica

I have come across these two rather strange videos of/by Doreen Massey: an interview with Rem Koolhaas and a documentary on Mexico City she herself presents. The first one was recorded in London’s Serpentine Gallery as part of the inaugural Interview Marathon—24 hours of conversations— in 2006. The interviewers and organizers were Koolhaas himself and…
The Power of Ideas: a discussion with David Harvey

Jan 10, 2016

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in David Harvey, Escritura científica, Espacio y política, Marxism, Marxismo, Materialismo histórico-geográfico

Here is the video of the event held at the LSE last month, on the occasion of David Harvey’s honorary degree, including a conversation with Jane Willis, Murray Low and Michael Storper. Questions such ‘What makes and idea powerful?’ provide the space for an informal reflection on the role of research and theory and Harvey’s…
Building Power | Free inaugural issue of ROAR collective’s magazine

Dec 22, 2015

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in Crisis, David Harvey, Derecho a la ciudad, Espacio social, Espacio y política, Marxismo, Materialismo histórico-geográfico, Politics

The ROAR Collective has launched a new website along with ROAR Magazine, a ‘quarterly journal of the radical imagination providing grassroots perspectives from the front-lines of the global struggle for real democracy.’ The inaugural issue, entitled ‘Building Power’, is available to download here. It includes contributions by John Holloway and Amador Fernández-Savater, and interviews with…