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Neil Brenner | New Urban Spaces
New 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 … Continue reading
Posted 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, Urbanización
Tagged Economía política, Escala, Neil Brenner, Neoliberalism, Neoliberalization, New State Spaces, New Urban Spaces, Planetary Urbanization, Políticas escalares, Reescalamiento, Urban political economy, Urban Theory Lab, Urbanización planetaria, Urbanization
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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 … Continue reading
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. … Continue reading
Posted in Marxism, Materialismo histórico-geográfico, Neil Brenner, Neoliberalismo, Planetary urbanization, Politics and space, Sin categoría, Urban studies, Urban Theory Lab, Urbanismo crítico, Urbanización
Tagged Claire Colomb, Escala, Espacios críticos, Espais Crítics, Icaria Editorial, Joan Vicente, Margit Mayer, Neil Brenner, Neoliberalismo, Planetary Urbanization, Ramón Ribera-Fumaz, Scale
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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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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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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, … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
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