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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
Mapping Workers’ Councils, 1917-1927
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Cartografías / Representaciones del espacio, Commons, Espacio social, Espacio y política, Marxism, Materialismo histórico-geográfico, Movimientos sociales
Tagged 1917, Autonomy, Berlin, Commons, Communism, Consejos obreros, England, Frankfurt, Geography, Germany, Italy, Map, Norway, Postwar, Russian revolution, Socialism, Soviets, United Kingdom, Workers' councils
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Planning the dispossession of centrality | Talk at the AA
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Commons, Dispossession, Enclosure, Modernism, Planning history, Political economy, Politics, Politics and space, Sin categoría, Social History of Planning
Tagged AA School of Architecture, Commons, Displacement, Dispossession, Enclosure, Original accumulation, Planning, Planning history, Primitive accumulation, Representation, Urban design
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Reclaiming the Commons | Critical art and translocality
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 … Continue reading
Common goods | Interview with Ugo Mattei
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. … Continue reading
Posted in Commons, Comunes, Enclosure, Sin categoría
Tagged Beni Comuni, Common goods, Common pool resources, Commons, Interview, Social movements, Ugo Mattei, Water
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Teresa Caldeira on street cultures and informal urbanisms
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
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 … Continue reading
Posted 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
Tagged Architecture and Politics, Commons, Gentrification, Graduate School of Design, GSD, Harvard University, Martin Wagner, Modern architecture, Modern urbanism, Modernism, Neoliberal urbanism, Planning, Political economy, Politics, Walter Gropius, Weimar Republic
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A prelude to urban renewal | Martin Wagner against the commons
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Commons, Comunes, Enclosure, Martin Wagner, My research, Sin categoría, Social History of Planning
Tagged Commons, Enclosure, Espacio social, Extreme territories of urbanization, Harvard Graduate School of Design, Historia social de la planificación, Martin Arboleda, Martin Wagner, Modern architecture, Modern planning, Planetary Urbanization, Planning history, Siedlung, Social history of planning, Urban commons, Urban community, Urban history, Urban renewal, Urban Theory Lab, Walter Gropius
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Back to the academic front…
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Architectural design, Arquitectura, Arquitectura y crítica, Commons, DUyOT, Espacio y política, Investigación urbanística, Planning history, Sin categoría, Urban studies
Tagged Antipode, Architectural design studio, Capitalist formations of enclosure: space and the extinction of the commons, Commons, DUyOT, Enclosure, Espais Crítics, ETSAM, Juan Herreros, Máster habilitante, Neil Smith, Planning history, Urban research
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New article in Antipode | ‘Capitalist formations of enclosure: space and the extinction of the commons’
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 … Continue reading
Posted in Commons, Comunes, Enclosure, Historia del urbanismo, Materialismo histórico-geográfico, Mis publicaciones, Parliamentary Enclosure, Space and politics
Tagged Antipode, Álvaro Sevilla Buitrago, Commodification, Commons, Critical geography, Dispossession, Enclosure, Marketization, Privatization, Radical geography, Spatial techniques, Spatial theory
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