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Category Archives: Landscape theory
Jane Hutton | Reciprocal Landscapes: Stories of Material Movements
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Landscape architecture, Landscape theory, Sin categoría
Tagged Central Park, Jane Hutton, Landscape, Material, Material flows, New York City
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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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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 … Continue reading
Posted in Central Park, Commons, Espacio social, Landscape architecture, Landscape theory, Mis publicaciones, My research, Planning history, Political economy, Political urbanism, Politics, Sin categoría, Space and politics, Urban design, Urban politics, Urban studies
Tagged Antonio Gramsci, Article, Central Park, Design politics, Environment, Environmental hegemony, Hegemony, Landscape design, Michel Foucault, Parks, Planning, Planning history, Society and Space, Urban design
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Gramsci and Foucault in Central Park | New article in Society and Space
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 … Continue reading
Posted 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
Tagged Antonio Gramsci, Central Park, Design, Frederick Law Olmsted, Governmentality, Hegemony, Integral state, Landscape architecture, Landscape history, Michel Foucault, Planning history, Public space, Society and Space, Space and politics, State, Urbanism
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Landscape, territory, 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 … Continue reading
Posted in Landscape theory, Paisaje urbano, Photography
Tagged Ansel Adams, Carl O. Sauer, Carlos Santamarina Macho, Dorothea Lange, Ed Ruscha, Edward Weston, Geografía feminista, John Brinckerhoff Jackson, John Friedman, Juan Luis de las Rivas, Landscape, Landscape theory, New Topographics, New Vernacular, Photography, Robert Venturi, Stephen Shore, Territory, Timoth, Topographic photography, United States of America, Universidad de Valladolid, William Christenberry, William Henry Jackson, William J.R. Curtis
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