Category: Space and politics

‘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…
Neil Brenner: Teoría urbana crítica y políticas de escala

Feb 17, 2017

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in Conflicto urbano, Derecho a la ciudad, Espacio y política, Espacios Críticos, Espais Crítics, Estudios urbanos / Urban Studies, Geografía crítica, Investigación urbanística, Marxismo, Mis publicaciones, Neil Brenner, Neoliberalismo, Planetary urbanization, Planificación urbana y territorial, Political economy, Politics, Politics and space, Sociología urbana, Space and politics, Teoría urbana, Urban politics, Urban studies, Urban Theory Lab, Urbanismo crítico

Acaba de publicarse Neil Brenner: Teoría urbana crítica y políticas de escala, volumen 9 de la colección Espacios Críticos de Icaria que hemos dedicado a nuestro colega y amigo del Urban Theory Lab. Como el resto de entregas en la serie el libro incorpora un estudio en profundidad de su periplo vital e intelectual, una…
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…
The politics of architecture | Mouffe, Aureli, Whiting et al

Oct 7, 2015

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in Architecture, Espacio y política, Manfredo Tafuri, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Political urbanism, Space and politics

Following up on the previous post, you can find below an interesting set of presentations about the politics of architecture by Chantal Mouffe, Pier Vittorio Aureli, Reinhold Martin, Ines Weizman and Sarah Whiting, and the ensuing discussion at the Architectural Association in an event organized by The Architecture Exchange. The roundtable is especially stimulating, with…
Lessons from London’s South Bank

Jun 3, 2015

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in Mis alumnos, Political urbanism, Space and politics, Urban politics, Urbanismo crítico

Sonia Freire-Trigo, a former student of mine now at UCL, is co-author of the article ‘The New Localism, Anti-Political Development Machines, and the Role of Planning Consultants: Lessons from London’s South Bank’, published in Territory, Politics, Governance. The piece explores the implications of new forms of anti-democratic urban policy for planners and consultants. Congrats on…
New article in Antipode | ‘Capitalist formations of enclosure: space and the extinction of the commons’

Feb 18, 2015

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in Commons, Comunes, Enclosure, Historia del urbanismo, Materialismo histórico-geográfico, Mis publicaciones, Parliamentary Enclosure, Space and politics

My latest article, ‘Capitalist formations of enclosure: space and the extinction of the commons’, is now available online at the early view webpage of Antipode. This was a great opportunity to sum up some of my recent explorations of the historical geography of enclosure, tracking its morphologies on a range of different periods and scales;…
Architecture_Media_Politics_Society

Oct 30, 2014

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in Arquitectura, Arquitectura y crítica, Space and politics, Teoría urbana, Urbanismo crítico, Vivienda social

Los más interesados en la conexión entre arquitectura y política tienen un excelente foro en la revista-web-blog Architecture_MPS, con una amplia colección de contenidos. La mayor parte de las aportaciones en la revista son foráneas pero me ha sorprendido encontrar entre los Chomsky, Frampton o Libeskind a nuestro Antonio Miranda, grande entre los grandes. La…
Urbanism and Dictatorship, forthcoming in the series Bauwelt Fundamente

Oct 29, 2014

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in Dictatorships and Urbanism, Espacio y política, Political urbanism, Space and politics

The website of Birkhäuser includes some early information about Urbanism and Dictatorship. A European Challenge, a forthcoming book in which I have participated. This is the volume n. 153 of the long-lasting and celebrated series Bauwelt Fundamente, which has recently embraced English language for some of its catalog. Urbanism and Dictatorhip is a monograph on…