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‘Real Estate Fictions’ by Left Hand Rotation

Feb 28, 2017

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asevillab

in Conflicto urbano, Derecho a la ciudad, Dispossession, Espacio público, Espacio social, Espacio y política, Gentrificación, Imaginarios urbanos, Sin categoría

Here is the last clip collection from Left Hand Rotation’s Real State Fiction series, where they glean extracts, dialogues and shots from movies dealing with gentrification, displacement, eviction, dilapidation, city branding and other contemporary urban conflicts. The range of genres and materials in this and previous collections is broad, between dark and amusing: from Jarmusch…
Planning the dispossession of centrality | Talk at the AA

Feb 22, 2017

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asevillab

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,…