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Category Archives: Planning history
[Re]Form: New Investigations in Urban Form (video)
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, … Continue reading
Posted in Neil Brenner, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Planetary urbanization, Planificación urbana y territorial, Planning history, Politics and space, Sin categoría, Urban design
Tagged Colin McFarlane, Island, Kees Christiaanse, Neyran Turan, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Sarah Williams, Shlomo Angel, Urban age, Urban assemblage, Urban design, Urban form, Urban grid, 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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‘Martin Wagner in America’ | Out in Planning Perspectives
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Architectural design, Architecture, Martin Wagner, Planning history, Political economy, Political urbanism, Politics, Space and politics, Urban design, Urban politics, Urban studies
Tagged Architecture, Berlin, Capitalism, Exile, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Martin Wagner, Planning, Planning history, Planning perspectives, Social Democratic Party of Germany, Social housing, Social policy, SPD, Trade unions, Urban design, Urban renewal, Urban sprawl, Urbanization, USA, Weimar Republic, Welfare state
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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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Talk at the AA – Thanks and additional materials
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 … Continue reading
Planning the dispossession of centrality | Talk at the AA
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Commons, Dispossession, Enclosure, Modernism, Planning history, Political economy, Politics, Politics and space, Sin categoría, Social History of Planning
Tagged AA School of Architecture, Commons, Displacement, Dispossession, Enclosure, Original accumulation, Planning, Planning history, Primitive accumulation, Representation, Urban design
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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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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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Back to the academic front…
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Architectural design, Arquitectura, Arquitectura y crítica, Commons, DUyOT, Espacio y política, Investigación urbanística, Planning history, Sin categoría, Urban studies
Tagged Antipode, Architectural design studio, Capitalist formations of enclosure: space and the extinction of the commons, Commons, DUyOT, Enclosure, Espais Crítics, ETSAM, Juan Herreros, Máster habilitante, Neil Smith, Planning history, Urban research
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