Tag Archives: Christian Schmid

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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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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 … Continue reading

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