Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago
@multipliciudad.bsky.social
Urban theory & history in times of crisis | Professor @upm.es |
author: Against the Commons: A Radical History of Urban Planning (U Minnesota Press) / Contra lo común: Una historia radical del urbanismo (Alianza) multipliciudades.org
author: Against the Commons: A Radical History of Urban Planning (U Minnesota Press) / Contra lo común: Una historia radical del urbanismo (Alianza) multipliciudades.org
Looking forward to this one...
October 10, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Looking forward to this one...
"Centros sociales autogestionados: teoría, historia y política urbana" | Seminario online con Miguel A. Martínez, organizado por el Máster en Planeamiento Urbano de @upm-urbanismo.bsky.social @upm.es
Miércoles 8 oct, 12:30h, abierto al público a través del enlace del póster.
Miércoles 8 oct, 12:30h, abierto al público a través del enlace del póster.
October 6, 2025 at 8:16 AM
"Centros sociales autogestionados: teoría, historia y política urbana" | Seminario online con Miguel A. Martínez, organizado por el Máster en Planeamiento Urbano de @upm-urbanismo.bsky.social @upm.es
Miércoles 8 oct, 12:30h, abierto al público a través del enlace del póster.
Miércoles 8 oct, 12:30h, abierto al público a través del enlace del póster.
Random things you find on the street...
(The Proletariat and Civil Law)
(The Proletariat and Civil Law)
September 23, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Random things you find on the street...
(The Proletariat and Civil Law)
(The Proletariat and Civil Law)
"What is radical planning history?"
The final version of this piece is out in the latest Planning Perspectives (free access). It calls for alternative critical epistemologies in planning history. Really looking forward to the conversations this might spark!
Check it out here: t.ly/m8Erb
The final version of this piece is out in the latest Planning Perspectives (free access). It calls for alternative critical epistemologies in planning history. Really looking forward to the conversations this might spark!
Check it out here: t.ly/m8Erb
September 15, 2025 at 9:32 AM
"What is radical planning history?"
The final version of this piece is out in the latest Planning Perspectives (free access). It calls for alternative critical epistemologies in planning history. Really looking forward to the conversations this might spark!
Check it out here: t.ly/m8Erb
The final version of this piece is out in the latest Planning Perspectives (free access). It calls for alternative critical epistemologies in planning history. Really looking forward to the conversations this might spark!
Check it out here: t.ly/m8Erb
Greetings from Brussels, fellow cinephiles.
August 25, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Greetings from Brussels, fellow cinephiles.
🚨New article alert!!
"What is Radical Planning History?" - a manifesto calling for alternative epistemologies in planning history that foreground history from below, critical-theoretical experimentation and grand narratives.
Open access in Planning Perspectives: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
"What is Radical Planning History?" - a manifesto calling for alternative epistemologies in planning history that foreground history from below, critical-theoretical experimentation and grand narratives.
Open access in Planning Perspectives: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
June 25, 2025 at 10:26 AM
🚨New article alert!!
"What is Radical Planning History?" - a manifesto calling for alternative epistemologies in planning history that foreground history from below, critical-theoretical experimentation and grand narratives.
Open access in Planning Perspectives: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
"What is Radical Planning History?" - a manifesto calling for alternative epistemologies in planning history that foreground history from below, critical-theoretical experimentation and grand narratives.
Open access in Planning Perspectives: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
🚨 New paper out in @urbanstudiesjournal.com 🚨
It discusses the notion of commonist urbanization, a spatial force aimed at the reproduction of the common rather than capital. Rejecting defensive tactics, commonism is framed as a totalizing principle spanning multiple scales. (Link below)
It discusses the notion of commonist urbanization, a spatial force aimed at the reproduction of the common rather than capital. Rejecting defensive tactics, commonism is framed as a totalizing principle spanning multiple scales. (Link below)
June 18, 2025 at 10:32 AM
🚨 New paper out in @urbanstudiesjournal.com 🚨
It discusses the notion of commonist urbanization, a spatial force aimed at the reproduction of the common rather than capital. Rejecting defensive tactics, commonism is framed as a totalizing principle spanning multiple scales. (Link below)
It discusses the notion of commonist urbanization, a spatial force aimed at the reproduction of the common rather than capital. Rejecting defensive tactics, commonism is framed as a totalizing principle spanning multiple scales. (Link below)
New book on the history of peripheral centralities and suburban utopias/failures, ed. by Nick Phelps, @rkeil.bsky.social & @planographer.bsky.social.
Our chapter uses Lefebvre's notion of centrality to examine Madrid's informal settlements and their impact on urban policy under a Fascist regime.
Our chapter uses Lefebvre's notion of centrality to examine Madrid's informal settlements and their impact on urban policy under a Fascist regime.
May 27, 2025 at 7:57 AM
New book on the history of peripheral centralities and suburban utopias/failures, ed. by Nick Phelps, @rkeil.bsky.social & @planographer.bsky.social.
Our chapter uses Lefebvre's notion of centrality to examine Madrid's informal settlements and their impact on urban policy under a Fascist regime.
Our chapter uses Lefebvre's notion of centrality to examine Madrid's informal settlements and their impact on urban policy under a Fascist regime.
Conocíamos a Costis Hadjimichalis por sus imprescindibles trabajos sobre la geografía de la crisis urbana en el Sur de Europa. Ahora llega esta maravilla mostrando su faceta de viajero y dibujante, siempre con las ciudades como protagonistas -- publicado por @orienteymediter.bsky.social
May 21, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Conocíamos a Costis Hadjimichalis por sus imprescindibles trabajos sobre la geografía de la crisis urbana en el Sur de Europa. Ahora llega esta maravilla mostrando su faceta de viajero y dibujante, siempre con las ciudades como protagonistas -- publicado por @orienteymediter.bsky.social
Cheers to a solid movie weekend
May 11, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Cheers to a solid movie weekend
Hot off the press: Urban Planning in Nazi Germany (DOM, 2025), ed. by Harald Bodenschatz, Max Welch Guerra et al -- a massive, richly illustrated and thoroughly researched monograph, the culmination of a long-standing series analyzing the urbanism of European dictatorships.
May 7, 2025 at 9:55 AM
Hot off the press: Urban Planning in Nazi Germany (DOM, 2025), ed. by Harald Bodenschatz, Max Welch Guerra et al -- a massive, richly illustrated and thoroughly researched monograph, the culmination of a long-standing series analyzing the urbanism of European dictatorships.
La próxima semana estaré en Coruña presentando *Contra lo común: una historia radical del urbanismo* -- la ciudad lleva tiempo enfrentándose a procesos muy agresivos de destrucción y desplazamiento, seguro que el debate va a ser interesante.
May 5, 2025 at 10:03 AM
La próxima semana estaré en Coruña presentando *Contra lo común: una historia radical del urbanismo* -- la ciudad lleva tiempo enfrentándose a procesos muy agresivos de destrucción y desplazamiento, seguro que el debate va a ser interesante.
📢Some news: I am now a full Professor of Urban Theory and Planning History.
Thanks to all who have supported me, especially those who taught me how hard, but also liberating, cities can be. I'm eager to keep learning... and hopefully to help others learn to fight for better urban futures.
Thanks to all who have supported me, especially those who taught me how hard, but also liberating, cities can be. I'm eager to keep learning... and hopefully to help others learn to fight for better urban futures.
April 25, 2025 at 9:56 AM
📢Some news: I am now a full Professor of Urban Theory and Planning History.
Thanks to all who have supported me, especially those who taught me how hard, but also liberating, cities can be. I'm eager to keep learning... and hopefully to help others learn to fight for better urban futures.
Thanks to all who have supported me, especially those who taught me how hard, but also liberating, cities can be. I'm eager to keep learning... and hopefully to help others learn to fight for better urban futures.
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.
November 29, 2024 at 10:10 AM
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.
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.
November 25, 2024 at 10:33 AM
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.