Commons – multipliciudades

Paul Chatterton – Unlocking Sustainable Cities: A Manifesto for Real Change

Nov 14, 2018

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in Diseño urbano, Planificación urbana y territorial, Urban design, Urbanismo sostenible

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 inequality. This book highlights how cities are locked into unsustainable and damaging practices, and how…

Mapping Workers’ Councils, 1917-1927

Apr 19, 2017

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in Cartografías / Representaciones del espacio, Commons, Espacio social, Espacio y política, Marxism, Materialismo histórico-geográfico, Movimientos sociales

libcom.org has launched a very interesting initiative to map workers’ councils as they spread across Europe and beyond in the years following the 1917 revolutions in Russia. Each case includes a reference to articles or books where more information can be found. The project has just begun and the team is still working on the…

Planning the dispossession of centrality | Talk at the AA

Feb 22, 2017

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in Architecture, Commons, Dispossession, Enclosure, Modernism, Planning history, Political economy, Politics, Politics and space, Sin categoría, Social History of Planning

I’ll be giving a talk at the AA School of Architecture next week (March 1st, 6:30PM, more info here), in the context of the PhD programme coordinated by Maria S. Giudici and Pier Vittorio Aureli. As I mentioned in a previous post they are doing amazing work with their students on the topics of territory,…

Reclaiming the Commons | Critical art and translocality

Nov 22, 2016

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in Commons, Enclosure, Sin categoría

Next week I will join a number of artists, activists and scholars at Hochschule Luzern – Design & Kunst to participate in the symposium ‘How critique becomes translocal – Reclaiming the commons’. Here is the presentation of the event: In 2014, Mexican artist Teresa Margolles presented her installation La Búsqueda at Migrosmuseum in Zurich. The…

Common goods | Interview with Ugo Mattei

Nov 4, 2016

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in Commons, Comunes, Enclosure, Sin categoría

An interview with Ugo Mattei (in Italian) about his book Beni Comuni: Un Manifesto (Laterza, 2012; Spanish translation by Trotta, 2013) and the struggles against water privatization in Italy. He has also published material on this topic in English, e.g. his ‘Social movements as constituent power: the Italian struggle for the commons’, Indiana Journal of…

Teresa Caldeira on street cultures and informal urbanisms

Oct 22, 2016

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in Architectural design, Architecture, Arquitectura, Comunes, Conflicto urbano, Sin categoría

An interesting short interview with Teresa Caldeira via urbanNext, discussing the dangers and problems of architectural discourses aestheticizing so-called informal urbanisms and street cultures.

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…

A prelude to urban renewal | Martin Wagner against the commons

Dec 7, 2015

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in Commons, Comunes, Enclosure, Martin Wagner, My research, Sin categoría, Social History of Planning

I have been away from the blog for a little while—this time, in addition to the usual excuses of work overload, due to the paperwork and related administrative hustle and bustle for an upcoming visit to Harvard Graduate School of Design. I have been awarded a Fulbright grant to be back in Cambridge next Spring…

Back to the academic front…

Sep 1, 2015

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in Architectural design, Arquitectura, Arquitectura y crítica, Commons, DUyOT, Espacio y política, Investigación urbanística, Planning history, Sin categoría, Urban studies

Back in the trenches, getting ready for the new semester with two courses to teach, ‘Ciudad y Urbanismo’ —an introduction to the analysis of urban processes, related bog in Spanish here— and ‘Taller de Urbanismo’. The latter is a workshop in the new Master in Design of our School of Architecture, part of an educational…

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;…

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