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Category Archives: Urban design
Paul Chatterton – Unlocking Sustainable Cities: A Manifesto for Real Change
Paul Chatterton, Unlocking Sustainable Cities: A Manifesto for Real Change, forthcoming with Pluto this month. This book is a manifesto for real urban change. Today, our urban areas are held back by corporate greed, loss of public space and rising … Continue reading
[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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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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CfP: Urban Form: Past, Present and Perspectives
Call for papers for a congress on urban morphology to be held in Toledo (Spain) in September 2016. More information here.
Posted in Call for papers, Urban design
Tagged Congresos urbanismo, Diseño urbano, Morfología urbana, Urban design
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Waldheim | Landscape as Urbanism
Charles Waldheim presents his book Landscape as Urbanism: A General Theory (Princeton University Press, forthcoming) at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. The talk includes an interesting discussion about the discursive constitution of disciplines. Waldheim draws on Harvey’s notion of … Continue reading
Posted in Arquitectura y crítica, Landscape architecture, Paisaje urbano, Urban design, Urbanismo crítico
Tagged Adriaan Geuze, Architecture, Charles Waldheim, David Harvey, Frederick Law Olmsted, James Corner, Landscape as Urbanism, Lanscape architecture, Ludwig Hilberseimer, Spatial fix, Stan Allen, Urbanismo
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