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SUMMARY:Against the commons: Elements for a Radical Planning Theory by Ál
 varo Sevilla-Buitrago /  TPOD\, ACHT\, THEMA\, HITAM
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago\nCan we approach the history of urban
 ization and spatial politics in a way that is both faithful to the predica
 ment of vulnerable communities and operative to ongoing emancipatory proje
 cts? Can these narratives sustain a theory that speaks to broader analyses
  of social change and struggles for democracy? This lecture presents an at
 tempt to address these questions by focusing on the speaker’s recent boo
 k\, Against the Commons: A Radical History of Urban Planning. Tracing the 
 struggle for the commons over three centuries\, this book examines the rol
 e of spatial politics in the development of capitalism and the decollectiv
 ization of society. The talk will offer an overview of the conceptual fram
 ework and historical arc of the book\, paying particular attention to its 
 epistemological premises and political implications. The seminar is intend
 ed as an invitation to discuss the conditions that can turn spatial resear
 ch into a foundation for an alternative theory of urbanization and an agen
 da of social transformation.\n\nÁlvaro Sevilla-Buitrago is Associate Prof
 essor of Urban Planning at the School of Architecture (ETSAM)\, Universida
 d Politécnica de Madrid. His work sits at the intersection of urban studi
 es\, critical theory\, and social history\, with a focus on how urbanizati
 on\, design practices\, and planning policies shape social change and comm
 unity life. He is the author of Against the Commons: A Radical History of 
 Urban Planning (University of Minnesota Press\, 2022) and editor of Neil B
 renner: Critical Urban Theory and the Politics of Scale (Icaria\, 2017). H
 e has an extensive record of over fifty publications in edited books and j
 ournals such as Antipode\, The Architectural Review\, Society and Space\, 
 Social and Cultural Geography\, and Planning Perspectives\, among others. 
 Before becoming a full-time academic\, he worked as an urban planner for o
 ver a decade.\n\nNeighbours Lecture Series Vol. 3\n\n13/3 - Pier Vittorio 
 Aureli (EPFL). Architecture and Abstraction: Book Launch with Sarah Nichol
 s\, Christophe van Gerrewey\, and Alfredo Thiermann\n20/3 - Tatiana Efruss
 i (L’atelier des artistes en exil). Hannes Meyer’s Kinderheim Mümlisw
 il: From Utopian 'Home' to National Memorial\n27/3 - Sarah Gainsforth (Jou
 rnalist). Challenging the New Housing Question\n10/4 - Claire Zimmerman (U
 niversity of Toronto). Industrial Architecture\, Situated in the Twentieth
  Century\n24/4 - Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago (Universidad Politécnica de Mad
 rid). Against the Commons: Elements for a Radical Planning Theory\n1/5 - S
 pyros Papapetros (Princeton University). Pre/Architecture\n8/5 - Anna-Mari
 a Meister (Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz: Max Planck Institute\, K
 IT and saai archive Karlsruhe). Fragile Objects\, Coded Knowledge\n15/5 - 
 Platon Issaias (Architectural Association) & Ioanna Theocharopoulou (Colum
 bia University). On the Polykatoikia and its Discontents
LOCATION:Archizoom
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