Category: Urban Theory Lab

Neil Brenner | New Urban Spaces

Jul 22, 2019

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in Economía urbana, Espacio y política, Espacios Críticos, Espais Crítics, Estudios urbanos / Urban Studies, Geografía crítica, Marxism, Materialismo histórico-geográfico, Neil Brenner, Neoliberalismo, Planetary urbanization, Political economy, Politics and space, Sociología urbana, Teoría urbana, Urban politics, Urban studies, Urban Theory Lab, Urbanización

New Urban Spaces: Urban Theory and the Scale Question, el nuevo libro de Neil Brenner, está disponible desde hace unas semanas en Oxford University Press. Se trata de un extenso desarrollo y reelaboración de textos que cubren el trabajo del autor durante más de 20 años: ocho piezas publicadas en revistas y libros, varias de…
Martín Arboleda — Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction Under Late Capitalism (Verso, forthcoming January 2020)

Apr 10, 2019

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in Planetary urbanization, Political economy, Teoría urbana, Urban Theory Lab, Urbanización

So, I am breaking the silence on this blog again to share the good news that Martín Arboleda’s Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction Under Late Capitalism will finally be out with Verso early next year — probably one of the books I am more excited to read soon, blending a political economy of extractive capitalism…
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…
Crisis global y teoría urbana crítica | Seminario en Barcelona

Feb 22, 2017

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in Marxism, Materialismo histórico-geográfico, Neil Brenner, Neoliberalismo, Planetary urbanization, Politics and space, Sin categoría, Urban studies, Urban Theory Lab, Urbanismo crítico, Urbanización

El próximo 10 de marzo nos reuniremos en Barcelona para presentar el volumen que Espacios Críticos ha dedicado a Neil Brenner y discutir con él y Margit Mayer los dilemas de la urbanización planetaria en un contexto de neoliberalización rampante. Se unirán a la conversación Claire Colomb, Ramón Ribera-Fumaz y Joan Vicente, además de los…
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…
Visualizing major ‘urban world’ metanarratives

Jun 16, 2016

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in Sin categoría, Urban Theory Lab

Daniel Ibañez, a member of Neil Brenner’s Urban Theory Lab, has produced a telling video for urbanNext, summarizing four major metageographical visions of the city, the urban and the world that animate contemporary discussion of world urbanization: the global-city network model, the urban-age discourse, Richard Florida’s spiky world of urban nodes of activity, and critical…
Martin Wagner and the politics of capitalist urbanization

Mar 23, 2016

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in Arquitectura y crítica, Comunes, David Harvey, Espacio social, Espacio y política, Martin Wagner, Neil Brenner, Sin categoría, Urban politics, Urban Theory Lab, Urbanismo crítico

It’s been almost a month since I arrived in Cambridge to conduct a research on the work of Martin Wagner at Harvard during his appointment as a professor at the Graduate School of Design. Wagner —an engineer and planner, head of the planning office of Berlin in the second half of the 1920s— arrived here…
Neil Brenner | Futura entrega de la colección Espacios Críticos

Apr 13, 2015

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in Neil Brenner, Sin categoría, Teoría urbana, Urban Theory Lab

Durante las pasadas semanas he estado dando los últimos retoques al manuscrito del libro sobre Neil Brenner que la editorial Icaria publicará próximamente, en su colección Espacios Críticos. Los asiduos a este blog habrán advertido la frecuencia de referencias a intervenciones y contribuciones a cargo de Brenner en los últimos meses; efectivamente, además del interés…
Brenner & Schmid’s new article: ‘Towards a new epistemology of the urban’

Apr 8, 2015

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in Neil Brenner, Planetary urbanization, Teoría urbana, Urban Theory Lab

Neil Brenner and Christian Schmid have just published ‘Towards a new epistemology of the urban’, a new contribution in their ongoing exploration of new theoretical frameworks to understand contemporary planetary urbanization. The piece adds to previous interventions by Brenner (see here and here), Brenner & Schmid (see here and here) and the wider efforts of…
Brenner in Melbourne

Mar 27, 2015

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in Neil Brenner, Urban Theory Lab

A couple of documents from Neil Brenner’s recent visit to Melbourne School of Design, ruminating on his latest contributions to the debates on planetary urbanization and the so-called ‘urban age’ (see e.g. here, here and here; also, stay tuned for an amazing new piece with Christian Schmid, to be published in City soon). You can…