Tag: Christian Schmid
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Reframing the World as One City | A debate forum in urbanNext
A group of architects and designers, in collaboration with Acta Publishers, recently launched the web project urbanNext, a site devoted to explore the role an expanded urban condition plays in shaping and rethinking architecture and urbanism. The content is broad and variegated, dealing with a number of collateral disciplines and related fields of practice, from…
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Brenner & Schmid’s new article: ‘Towards a new epistemology of the urban’
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…
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Brenner in Melbourne
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…
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Neil Brenner | Teoría urbana sin exterior
¿Qué sucede cuando la profecía lefebvriana de una ciudad que deviene mundo se materializa? ¿Cómo podemos repensar las estrategias de la teoría urbana cuando la ciudad ha subsumido e instrumentalizado su ‘exterior constitutivo’, lo no-urbano, lo rural, lo natural? ¿Cuáles son los retos actuales para pensar e intervenir en este planeta urbano? Son algunas de…
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Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization | Neil Brenner (ed.)
A excepción de un breve paréntesis vacacional del que espero dar cuenta en unos días, agosto ha sido un largo mes de trabajo intenso que me ha mantenido lejos del blog más de lo que hubiera deseado. Pero los primeros frutos ya despuntan: la berlinesa Jovis avanza la cercana salida del libro Implosions/Explosions: Towards a…
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