Tag: Planning history

‘Martin Wagner in America’ | Out in Planning Perspectives

Sep 28, 2017

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in Architectural design, Architecture, Martin Wagner, Planning history, Political economy, Political urbanism, Politics, Space and politics, Urban design, Urban politics, Urban studies

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…
Landscape struggles, environmental hegemonies and the politics of urban design

Mar 21, 2017

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in Central Park, Commons, Espacio social, Landscape architecture, Landscape theory, Mis publicaciones, My research, Planning history, Political economy, Political urbanism, Politics, Sin categoría, Space and politics, Urban design, Urban politics, Urban studies

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…
Planning the dispossession of centrality | Talk at the AA

Feb 22, 2017

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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,…
urbanHist | European Joint Doctorate Programme – Call for Applications

Nov 22, 2016

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asevillab

in Sin categoría

In the context of EU funded Joint PhD programs, a group of institutions from Germany, Slovakia, Spain and Sweden offer 15 positions to conduct research on the history of European planning and urbanism during the 20th century. The fellowships are part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie program and provide a very attractive path in diverse research…
Gramsci and Foucault in Central Park | New article in Society and Space

Jul 18, 2016

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in Antonio Gramsci, Arquitectura y crítica, Central Park, Diseño urbano, Espacio público, Espacio y política, Historia del urbanismo, Landscape architecture, Landscape theory, Marxism, Marxismo, Michel Foucault, Mis publicaciones, Nueva York, Planning history, Political urbanism, Politics, Social History of Planning, Space and politics, Urban design, Urbanismo crítico

My latest article, ‘Gramsci and Foucault in Central Park: Environmental hegemonies, pedagogical spaces and integral state formations’, is now available online on the early view webpage of Environment and Planning D: Society and Space (requires subscription). The piece draws on the conceptualizations of power and the state by these authors to develop an explicitly political…
A prelude to urban renewal | Martin Wagner against the commons

Dec 7, 2015

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in Commons, Comunes, Enclosure, Martin Wagner, My research, Sin categoría, Social History of Planning

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 Design. I have been awarded a Fulbright grant to be back in Cambridge next Spring…
Back to the academic front…

Sep 1, 2015

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asevillab

in Architectural design, Arquitectura, Arquitectura y crítica, Commons, DUyOT, Espacio y política, Investigación urbanística, Planning history, Sin categoría, Urban studies

Back in the trenches, getting ready for the new semester with two courses to teach, ‘Ciudad y Urbanismo’ —an introduction to the analysis of urban processes, related bog in Spanish here— and ‘Taller de Urbanismo’. The latter is a workshop in the new Master in Design of our School of Architecture, part of an educational…

Tag: Planning history

‘Martin Wagner in America’ | Out in Planning Perspectives

Landscape struggles, environmental hegemonies and the politics of urban design

Planning the dispossession of centrality | Talk at the AA

urbanHist | European Joint Doctorate Programme – Call for Applications

Gramsci and Foucault in Central Park | New article in Society and Space

A prelude to urban renewal | Martin Wagner against the commons

Back to the academic front…