Category: Landscape theory

Jane Hutton | Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements

Nov 29, 2019

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Jane Hutton’s Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements, is out with Routledge. I have been following Hutton’s work for a long time and I was eager to read this elaboration of her previous research on the relational political ecology of uneven material flows. Here is the summary: How are the far-away, invisible landscapes where materials…
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Mar 21, 2018

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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

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 schedules here in Madrid, this absence is due to additional tasks related to my appointment…
Landscape struggles, environmental hegemonies and the politics of urban design

Mar 21, 2017

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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…
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…
Landscape, territory, photography

Sep 24, 2015

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asevillab

in Landscape theory, Paisaje urbano, Photography

As I mentioned in a previous post, the semester ahead is full of dissertation committees, six in the next few months. One of the most impressive works I have reviewed so far is Carlos Santamarina’s Culture and representation of the man-made landscape: creating the image of American territory (Universidad de Valladolid). I was initially reluctant…

Category: Landscape theory

Jane Hutton | Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements

Back to the blog

Landscape struggles, environmental hegemonies and the politics of urban design

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

Landscape, territory, photography