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Tag Archives: Planning
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 … Continue reading
Posted 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
Tagged Antonio Gramsci, Article, Central Park, Design politics, Environment, Environmental hegemony, Hegemony, Landscape design, Michel Foucault, Parks, Planning, Planning history, Society and Space, Urban design
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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 … Continue reading
Posted in Architecture, Commons, Dispossession, Enclosure, Modernism, Planning history, Political economy, Politics, Politics and space, Sin categoría, Social History of Planning
Tagged AA School of Architecture, Commons, Displacement, Dispossession, Enclosure, Original accumulation, Planning, Planning history, Primitive accumulation, Representation, Urban design
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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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Tagged New Towns, Planning, Real estate, Urbanism, Urbanization
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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 … Continue reading
Posted 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
Tagged Architecture and Politics, Commons, Gentrification, Graduate School of Design, GSD, Harvard University, Martin Wagner, Modern architecture, Modern urbanism, Modernism, Neoliberal urbanism, Planning, Political economy, Politics, Walter Gropius, Weimar Republic
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