Profile avatar
multipliciudad.bsky.social
Urban theory & history in times of crisis | author: Against the Commons: A Radical History of Urban Planning (U Minnesota Press) / Contra lo común: Una historia radical del urbanismo (Alianza) | Prof. U. Politécnica de Madrid | multipliciudades.org
6 posts 458 followers 491 following
Regular Contributor
Posts 21 Comments 1

🚨 New Report 🚨 'Centripetal Cities: A critique of supply-side urban development' Given the Government's aim to 'unleash growth' we've drawn on over 3 years of research to think about the implications of this agenda for towns + cities Available here www.sheffield.ac.uk/media/87471/...

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

🚨 We're hiring! 🚨 Senior Lecturer/Professor in Planning. Lead impactful research, teach in accredited planning programs, and engage with external stakeholders. 📅 Apply by: 3rd March 2025 🔗 Apply here: tinyurl.com/y9aac8zp #AcademicJobs #Planning #HigherEdJobs

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

🚨 We're hiring! 🚨 Senior Lecturer/Professor in Social and Public Policy. Lead cutting-edge research, deliver research-led teaching, and engage with external stakeholders. 📅 Apply by: 3rd March 2025 🔗 Apply here: tinyurl.com/4ew5xk2s #AcademicJobs #SocialPolicy #HigherEdJobs

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

How do space, urbanization and planning mediate the relationship between commons and capitalism? 'A is for Architecture' just dropped a new interview about my book, Against the Commons: A Radical History of Urban Planning. Available on the usual podcast platforms and here: t.ly/PS637

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Hot off the digital press, my article in @antipodeonline.bsky.social on Social Reproduction and the Housing Question onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

No podemos volver al Jardín del Edén pero podemos comprometernos en ajardinar el abismo. Ya solo queda una semana para el pistolezato de salida... rodeado de gente maravillosa en un lugar muy especial. Reserven agendas!!

submitted 31 days ago • 0 comments

Welcome to Bluesky comrades from the Urban Theory Lab @urbantheorylab.bsky.social!! #urbanism #urbantheory #urbanization

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

🎧We just published a new episode of the Urban Political!🎧 Listen via this link or on Spotify! urbanpolitical.online/83-book-pres... It is a new episode from our Think&Drink series in collaboration with the Georg-Simmel-Centre for Urban Studies and @humboldtuni.bsky.social.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

New job alert! 2-year post-doc on the history of property inequalities (renewable up to 4 years) at LISER, Luxembourg. HIST_PROP, funded by @csllux.bsky.social, will analyse land and property ownership data in Luxembourg (1824-1938). Happy to answer questions! jobs.liser.lu/job/Esch-sur...

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

The only good thing to come of the Chicago parking privatization debacle was this article by Stephanie Farmer -- still (IMHO) the best scholarly thing ever written on the privatization/financialization of urban infrastructure

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

Our latest issue includes three review essays on recent books on the contemporary far-right and the meaning (or non-meaning) of fascism today 1. Danny Hayward on Alberto Toscano's Late Fascism www.radicalphilosophy.com/reviews/fasc...

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it, and those who can remember the past are like, what the hell, man?

submitted 38 days ago • 7 comments

New paper on conjunctural analysis and radical municipalism and their affinities as two political methods for intervening in the conjuncture Written w/ @paul-stubbs.bsky.social, @colinlorne.bsky.social and co. Just published open access in Environment & Planning F: doi.org/10.1177/2634... 🧵

submitted 40 days ago • 2 comments

New publication! In this paper in Critical Historical Studies, I undertake a detailed methodological engagement with Jairus Banaji’s remarkable scholarship on historical capitalism: www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

submitted 72 days ago • 3 comments

Here I am presenting about 15 books that shaped my life!

submitted 90 days ago • 3 comments

When Marx wrote that the “ruling ideas are those of the ruling class” he generally meant that those who owned newspapers shared the same class interests as those who owned factories; now the same person who owns Amazon owns a newspaper and film studio, the owner of Tesla owns X, etc.

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

Wrapping up a presentation on the relationship between Italian autonomous movements and neoliberal urbanism in Milan for a talk next week at London's Royal College of Art.

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

A recent talk by Kristin Ross at the Pratt Institute, focusing on her newly translated book, The Commune Form: The Transformation of Everyday Life (Verso, 2024) @versobooks.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVEn...

submitted 95 days ago • 1 comment

Yet another starter pack... For all those interested in critical urban geography, broadly defined! go.bsky.app/RgsNWsi

submitted 104 days ago • 16 comments

Hegel's versus Benjamin's conceptions of history. Interestingly, both use similar terms (zertrümmern/Trümmer, i.e. rubble, debris) and images to depict progress as creative destruction -- the two faces of modernity.

submitted 95 days ago • 0 comments

Hello world! I'm Álvaro, a professor and critical urbanist interested in #urbantheory, #planninghistory and the #commons. My research on these topics has been condensed in the book below. I'll be posting about urbanization, cities, politics... and maybe leisure? bit.ly/3EITzMh

submitted 100 days ago • 1 comment