Tag: Planetary Urbanization
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Neil Brenner | New Urban Spaces
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in Economía urbana, Espacio y política, Espacios Críticos, Espais Crítics, Estudios urbanos / Urban Studies, Geografía crítica, Marxism, Materialismo histórico-geográfico, Neil Brenner, Neoliberalismo, Planetary urbanization, Political economy, Politics and space, Sociología urbana, Teoría urbana, Urban politics, Urban studies, Urban Theory Lab, UrbanizaciónNew Urban Spaces: Urban Theory and the Scale Question, el nuevo libro de Neil Brenner, está disponible desde hace unas semanas en Oxford University Press. Se trata de un extenso desarrollo y reelaboración de textos que cubren el trabajo del autor durante más de 20 años: ocho piezas publicadas en revistas y libros, varias de…
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Martín Arboleda — Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction Under Late Capitalism (Verso, forthcoming January 2020)
So, I am breaking the silence on this blog again to share the good news that Martín Arboleda’s Planetary Mine: Territories of Extraction Under Late Capitalism will finally be out with Verso early next year — probably one of the books I am more excited to read soon, blending a political economy of extractive capitalism…
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Crisis global y teoría urbana crítica | Seminario en Barcelona
El próximo 10 de marzo nos reuniremos en Barcelona para presentar el volumen que Espacios Críticos ha dedicado a Neil Brenner y discutir con él y Margit Mayer los dilemas de la urbanización planetaria en un contexto de neoliberalización rampante. Se unirán a la conversación Claire Colomb, Ramón Ribera-Fumaz y Joan Vicente, además de los…
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#ResisteHabitat3 | Final alternative ‘Declaration in defense of our territories’
Following up on my previous post about Habitat 3, here’s the alternative manifesto of Resistencia Habitat III, one of the local movements in Quito that have been organizing parallel events, challenging dominant narratives about urbanization and the UN new urban agenda in the last few months with the help of activists and thinkers around the…
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Visualizing major ‘urban world’ metanarratives
Daniel Ibañez, a member of Neil Brenner’s Urban Theory Lab, has produced a telling video for urbanNext, summarizing four major metageographical visions of the city, the urban and the world that animate contemporary discussion of world urbanization: the global-city network model, the urban-age discourse, Richard Florida’s spiky world of urban nodes of activity, and critical…
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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 and variegated, dealing with a number of collateral disciplines and related fields of practice, from…
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Harvey y la crisis de la urbanización planetaria
Harvey discute los procesos de resistencia urbana y las contradicciones de la urbanización planetaria en una visita reciente a Curitiba. El sonido es algo deficiente pero el contenido, como siempre, interesante. Más información sobre el evento en su página web, también con enlace a la versión en portugués.
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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 here and here), Brenner & Schmid (see here and here) and the wider efforts of…
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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 an amazing new piece with Christian Schmid, to be published in City soon). You can…
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