The Hispanic Urban Studies book series is gaining momentum. See more information on our growing number of titles on the new ‘book series’ page on urbanculturalstudies.wordpress.com or at the home page for the series at Palgrave.
Check out “Failed Architecture” for a number of interesting articles on urban failure.
“Failed Architecture (FA) is a research platform that aims to open up new perspectives on urban failure – from what it’s perceived to be, what’s actually happening and how it’s represented to the public…We find it crucial to examine architecture not just from an architectural discourse. Since architecture is a product of the political, economic and social conditions of its time, it should be scrutinized as such.
Observing and living in a time of crises, speculations, vacancy, mega developments and the inflation of the architectural profession, we are often astonished by what is happening to our built environment – both physically and ‘behind the scenes’. Simultaneously, the best visited online architectural media are preoccupied with the eye candy produced by architects, without being critical about current or future developments. We feel that there is a demand for…
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“This article expands on the quotidian perspectives of ‘ordinary cities’ and ‘everyday resistance’ and explores the migrant urbanisms that emerge out of movement, mixing and exchange. The article argues for a shift beyond a focus on encounter across racial and ethnic difference, to engage with whether everyday social practice can effectively contaminate political practice. The question is raised within the understanding that everyday life is rooted in inequality, and extends to an analysis of migrant participation in city life as creative expression and everyday resistance. Against a pernicious migrancy problematic in the UK that defines migration as an external force assaulted on national integrity from the outside, I explore migrant urbanisms as participatory practices of reconfiguration within ordinary cities, where diversity and innovation intersect. At the core of this exploration is how migrants are active in the making of urban space and urban politics.”
http://soc.sagepub.com/content/49/5/853.full
s.m.hall@lse.ac.uk
Call for papers for an interesting panel in the next AAG meeting in San Francisco. Mor info here.
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The Architecture of Capital: Rethinking the Geographies of Design in a Planetary Moment
AAG Annual Meeting, San Francisco, March 29-April 2, 2016
Organizers
Adam Kaasa, Royal College of Art
Pushpa Arabindoo, University College London
SUPPORTED BY THE UCL URBAN LABORATORY
Following the emergence of a renewed debate about the relationship of architecture to processes of capitalist urbanization, a series of opposing conceptions of architectural or design methods have been espoused as either a tool of capital (Brenner 2015), or as a space of political imagination (Lefebvre 2014). Within architecture itself, the discourse similarly moves between the emancipatory politics of an architectural imagination (Lahiji 2014), and the persistence of early Marxist criticism established by Manfredo Tafuri (1979) and Frederic Jameson (1998) that architecture is an integral part of the capitalist project…
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I am certainly impressed with the size of it and it’s certainly ‘modern’ – wonderful in wood and all of that but without having been there I really can’t see from these pictures how this contributes to anything that makes an urban environment habitable, livable or great to be in, especially in a city like Seville – I wonder what its residents think? What do you think? via Bustler – I then Googled this and changed the rest of the content to the Guardians commentary by Rowan Moore
Seville’s flashy new showcase is held together by extra-strong glue – but not quite enough to make its many parts connect
April 2011 marks the completion of “Metropol Parasol”, the Redevelopment of the Plaza de la Encarnacíon in Seville, Spain. Designed by Berlin-based J. MAYER H. architects, this project has already become the new landmark for Seville, a place of identification…
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f the projects that the Smart city enthusiasts want to see go ahead, and the populace and enviroenmtalists oppose?Critics say the Corredor Cultural Chapultepec is not the kind of public space the city desperately needs.
Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.citylab.com
Is this example of the previous two posts on C40 cities and resistance change that is not always favourable the long run?
See on Scoop.it – Urban Choreography
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