Tag: Planning
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‘Martin Wagner in America’ | Out in Planning Perspectives
The final version of my article ‘Martin Wagner in America: planning and the political economy of capitalist urbanization’ has been published in Planning Perspectives (this alternative link provides temporary free access to the full paper). This is part of the research I did last year with Wagner’s personal archive at Harvard Frances Loeb Library, which…
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Landscape struggles, environmental hegemonies and the politics of urban design
In a previous post I announced the publication of a new article about Central Park in Environment and Planning D, this time focusing on the governmental and strategic role of the park’s schemein the context of local struggles to consolidate or challenge existing hegemonies. For that purpose I elaborated a theoretical framework around the concept…
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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 previous post they are doing amazing work with their students on the topics of territory,…
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New Towns in the 21st Century: Past, Present, Prospects
Here is the video of a series of talks and roundtable on New Town urbanism, celebrated at Harvard GSD last week, with speakers from the fields of design, planning and real estate.
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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 of the planning office of Berlin in the second half of the 1920s— arrived here…