Category: Planning history

[Re]Form: New Investigations in Urban Form (video)

Oct 15, 2018

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in Neil Brenner, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Planetary urbanization, Planificación urbana y territorial, Planning history, Politics and space, Sin categoría, Urban design

Recordings of a recent multidisciplinary symposium on urbanization at Harvard GSD, including amongst others papers by Pier Vittorio Aureli, Colin McFarlane and Kees Christiaanse. There is an interesting exchange between Aureli and Neil Brenner at the end of panel 1, dealing with the history of the urban grid vis-à-vis capitalist development, and the political implications…
Back to the blog

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…
‘Martin Wagner in America’ | Out in Planning Perspectives

Sep 28, 2017

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in Architectural design, Architecture, Martin Wagner, Planning history, Political economy, Political urbanism, Politics, Space and politics, Urban design, Urban politics, Urban studies

The final version of my article ‘Martin Wagner in America: planning and the political economy of capitalist urbanization’ has been published in Planning Perspectives (this alternative link provides temporary free access to the full paper). This is part of the research I did last year with Wagner’s personal archive at Harvard Frances Loeb Library, which…
Landscape struggles, environmental hegemonies and the politics of urban design

Mar 21, 2017

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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

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…
Talk at the AA – Thanks and additional materials

Mar 6, 2017

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in Architecture, Arquitectura y crítica, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Planning history

I had a great time during the seminar last week at the AA, where I presented my recent research on planning’s role in the destruction of working-class centralities through several historical illustrations from Germany and the US. This is a new episode of my ‘social history of planning’ project and it was the first time…
Planning the dispossession of centrality | Talk at the AA

Feb 22, 2017

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in Architecture, Commons, Dispossession, Enclosure, Modernism, Planning history, Political economy, Politics, Politics and space, Sin categoría, Social History of Planning

I’ll be giving a talk at the AA School of Architecture next week (March 1st, 6:30PM, more info here), in the context of the PhD programme coordinated by Maria S. Giudici and Pier Vittorio Aureli. As I mentioned in a previous post they are doing amazing work with their students on the topics of territory,…
Modernism and the Right to the City | Talk at DO.CO.MO.MO Conference

Nov 7, 2016

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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

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,…
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…
Back to the academic front…

Sep 1, 2015

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in Architectural design, Arquitectura, Arquitectura y crítica, Commons, DUyOT, Espacio y política, Investigación urbanística, Planning history, Sin categoría, Urban studies

Back in the trenches, getting ready for the new semester with two courses to teach, ‘Ciudad y Urbanismo’ —an introduction to the analysis of urban processes, related bog in Spanish here— and ‘Taller de Urbanismo’. The latter is a workshop in the new Master in Design of our School of Architecture, part of an educational…