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Teresa Caldeira on street cultures and informal urbanisms

Oct 22, 2016

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asevillab

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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asevillab

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…