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Society and Space | New site
The parallel website of Environment and Planning D: Society and Space has moved to societyandspace.org, with a new design which makes it easier to explore the different materials including short essays, book reviews, virtual issues, interviews and a lot more. Managing Editor Natalie Oswin presents the new site on behalf of the editorial team here.…
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Urban Environments Research Network website now live
Originally posted on Progressive Geographies: The Urban Environments Research Network website is now live: Cities are made from stone and glass, concrete and brick. City streets present a succession of shapes, signs and populations. As an assemblage, the city’s built qualities are the most readily apparent, and these manifest both as tangible objects and things…
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#ResisteHabitat3 | Final alternative ‘Declaration in defense of our territories’
Following up on my previous post about Habitat 3, here’s the alternative manifesto of Resistencia Habitat III, one of the local movements in Quito that have been organizing parallel events, challenging dominant narratives about urbanization and the UN new urban agenda in the last few months with the help of activists and thinkers around the…
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Colloque ‘Inventer le Grand Paris’
News about the celebration of a seminar devoted to explore metropolitan development during the late 20th century, with a special focus on the Île-de-France region from 1965 on. Le colloque de 2016 couvre le temps présent du Grand Paris, de la fin des années 1960 aux débuts du XXIe siècle. Il met en perspective l’histoire…
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Synthesis: A new justice for the New Urban Agenda
Habitat III is now part of history, and it remains to be seen how the urban futures that figured so prominently in the official discourses will be shaped by the new urban agenda, well-intentioned but vague as it is. As someone who worked for several years in a UN initiative related to Habitat II’s program…
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Teresa Caldeira on street cultures and informal urbanisms
An interesting short interview with Teresa Caldeira via urbanNext, discussing the dangers and problems of architectural discourses aestheticizing so-called informal urbanisms and street cultures.
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Nomos of the Body
Originally posted on machines of urbanization: An audio tour contribution for ‘Hesitant desire shall flourish in a soil not too strong‘, a project by Ilona Sagar. https://soundcloud.com/ilona-dorota-sagar/nomos
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New Towns in the 21st Century: Past, Present, Prospects
Here is the video of a series of talks and roundtable on New Town urbanism, celebrated at Harvard GSD last week, with speakers from the fields of design, planning and real estate.
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I Premio de Investigación de Economía Urbana de Madrid
El Área de Gobierno de Economía y Hacienda del Ayuntamiento de Madrid ha convocado el I Premio de Investigación de Economía Urbana de Madrid, destinado a investigadores en etapas tempranas de su labor—se admiten trabajos de doctorado y máster centrados en el funcionamiento de la economía local y la dotación de los premios es bastante…
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David Harvey Marx & Capital Lecture 1: Capital as Value in Motion
David Harvey’s new series of talks on Marx and Capital at CUNY will be available on YouTube. Here is the first lecture, delivered a few weeks ago.
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