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
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On commonist urbanisation: Autonomy and centrality within and beyond the city - Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago, 2025
Urban commons are widely regarded as key sites of resistance to capitalism. Yet their ‘urban’ status is often framed as a self-evident locative attribute with l...
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June 18, 2025 at 10:32 AM
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journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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I also interrogate how urbanization is framed in relation to commoning and in critical urban studies more generally. Advancing planetary urbanization debates through negative dialectics, the paper urges renewed attention to centrality as a force shaping the urban condition within and beyond cities.
June 18, 2025 at 10:32 AM
I also interrogate how urbanization is framed in relation to commoning and in critical urban studies more generally. Advancing planetary urbanization debates through negative dialectics, the paper urges renewed attention to centrality as a force shaping the urban condition within and beyond cities.
The paper considers the spatial conditions of possibility for this emergent urban logic, examining the material/propietary configurations, socioecological dynamics and centrality arrangements that distingish capitalist and 'commonist' regimes.
June 18, 2025 at 10:32 AM
The paper considers the spatial conditions of possibility for this emergent urban logic, examining the material/propietary configurations, socioecological dynamics and centrality arrangements that distingish capitalist and 'commonist' regimes.