#urbantheory — Public Fediverse posts

Brought Rehearsing A #City For All, edited by Silvia Bottiroli, back from a visit to the Venice Biennale last week – as you do.

https://shop.b-r-u-n-o.it/products/fuori-rehearsing-a-city-for-all

Particularly taken by Bottiroli’s idea of #public space ‘not as a site but rather as a subject with #agency and therefore a collaborator for any intervention’ we might wish to imagine’ (p.10).

Interesting, too, because it rather contrasts my refusal in the chapter on ‘How to Redesign a City’ in Masked Media, ‘to present the city itself, in all its complexity and #pluriversality as an intelligent #inhuman actor’. The reason being that the kinds of cities my collaborators and I are trying to imagine not already exist. Rather, the challenge is to invent the conditions and contexts out of which they might emerge.

http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/masked-media/

#VeniceBiennale #MaskedMedia #PublicSpace #Theory #UrbanTheory #Cities #Design

Brought Rehearsing A #City For All, edited by Silvia Bottiroli, back from a visit to the Venice Biennale last week – as you do.

https://shop.b-r-u-n-o.it/products/fuori-rehearsing-a-city-for-all

Particularly taken by Bottiroli’s idea of #public space ‘not as a site but rather as a subject with #agency and therefore a collaborator for any intervention’ we might wish to imagine’ (p.10).

Interesting, too, because it rather contrasts my refusal in the chapter on ‘How to Redesign a City’ in Masked Media, ‘to present the city itself, in all its complexity and #pluriversality as an intelligent #inhuman actor’. The reason being that the kinds of cities my collaborators and I are trying to imagine not already exist. Rather, the challenge is to invent the conditions and contexts out of which they might emerge.

http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/masked-media/

#VeniceBiennale #MaskedMedia #PublicSpace #Theory #UrbanTheory #Cities #Design

Brought Rehearsing A #City For All, edited by Silvia Bottiroli, back from a visit to the Venice Biennale last week – as you do.

https://shop.b-r-u-n-o.it/products/fuori-rehearsing-a-city-for-all

Particularly taken by Bottiroli’s idea of #public space ‘not as a site but rather as a subject with #agency and therefore a collaborator for any intervention’ we might wish to imagine’ (p.10).

Interesting, too, because it rather contrasts my refusal in the chapter on ‘How to Redesign a City’ in Masked Media, ‘to present the city itself, in all its complexity and #pluriversality as an intelligent #inhuman actor’. The reason being that the kinds of cities my collaborators and I are trying to imagine not already exist. Rather, the challenge is to invent the conditions and contexts out of which they might emerge.

http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/masked-media/

#VeniceBiennale #MaskedMedia #PublicSpace #Theory #UrbanTheory #Cities #Design

Brought Rehearsing A #City For All, edited by Silvia Bottiroli, back from a visit to the Venice Biennale last week – as you do.

https://shop.b-r-u-n-o.it/products/fuori-rehearsing-a-city-for-all

Particularly taken by Bottiroli’s idea of #public space ‘not as a site but rather as a subject with #agency and therefore a collaborator for any intervention’ we might wish to imagine’ (p.10).

Interesting, too, because it rather contrasts my refusal in the chapter on ‘How to Redesign a City’ in Masked Media, ‘to present the city itself, in all its complexity and #pluriversality as an intelligent #inhuman actor’. The reason being that the kinds of cities my collaborators and I are trying to imagine not already exist. Rather, the challenge is to invent the conditions and contexts out of which they might emerge.

http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/masked-media/

#VeniceBiennale #MaskedMedia #PublicSpace #Theory #UrbanTheory #Cities #Design

Brought Rehearsing A #City For All, edited by Silvia Bottiroli, back from a visit to the Venice Biennale last week – as you do.

https://shop.b-r-u-n-o.it/products/fuori-rehearsing-a-city-for-all

Particularly taken by Bottiroli’s idea of #public space ‘not as a site but rather as a subject with #agency and therefore a collaborator for any intervention’ we might wish to imagine’ (p.10).

Interesting, too, because it rather contrasts my refusal in the chapter on ‘How to Redesign a City’ in Masked Media, ‘to present the city itself, in all its complexity and #pluriversality as an intelligent #inhuman actor’. The reason being that the kinds of cities my collaborators and I are trying to imagine not already exist. Rather, the challenge is to invent the conditions and contexts out of which they might emerge.

http://www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles/masked-media/

#VeniceBiennale #MaskedMedia #PublicSpace #Theory #UrbanTheory #Cities #Design

infrastructure as promise
infrastracture as fracture

#jamesbenning #infrastructure #urbantheory #landscape #anthropocene

can we think of venice as a sentient ruin — not dead matter, but a third landscape where water, stone, tourism, memory and climate interweave?
what does it mean to inhabit a ruin that is still alive?
when does preservation become anticipation?
are we witnessing decay — or transition?

below, two vedute by canaletto and bellotto, but stripped of people, boats, and movement (modified with AI).

#venice #ruins #anthropocene #slowsublime #psychogeography #urbantheory #architecture #thirdlandscape

"The mid-twentieth-century dream that #LosAngeles is America’s Eden, celebrated by Reyner Banham as he tooled around its freeways, has been superseded by the dark reality envisioned by Mike Davis, who foretold with uncanny accuracy what the other side of paradise would be like."

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/03/13/eden-on-fire-los-angeles-martin-filler/
https://archive.ph/PVJpm
#CaliforniaWildfires #LAwildfires #LAfires #CaliforniaFires #California #urbanism #UrbanTheory #FireEcology #ecocide #LA #cities

"The mid-twentieth-century dream that #LosAngeles is America’s Eden, celebrated by Reyner Banham as he tooled around its freeways, has been superseded by the dark reality envisioned by Mike Davis, who foretold with uncanny accuracy what the other side of paradise would be like."

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/03/13/eden-on-fire-los-angeles-martin-filler/
https://archive.ph/PVJpm
#CaliforniaWildfires #LAwildfires #LAfires #CaliforniaFires #California #urbanism #UrbanTheory #FireEcology #ecocide #LA #cities

"The mid-twentieth-century dream that #LosAngeles is America’s Eden, celebrated by Reyner Banham as he tooled around its freeways, has been superseded by the dark reality envisioned by Mike Davis, who foretold with uncanny accuracy what the other side of paradise would be like."

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/03/13/eden-on-fire-los-angeles-martin-filler/
https://archive.ph/PVJpm
#CaliforniaWildfires #LAwildfires #LAfires #CaliforniaFires #California #urbanism #UrbanTheory #FireEcology #ecocide #LA #cities

"The mid-twentieth-century dream that #LosAngeles is America’s Eden, celebrated by Reyner Banham as he tooled around its freeways, has been superseded by the dark reality envisioned by Mike Davis, who foretold with uncanny accuracy what the other side of paradise would be like."

https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2025/03/13/eden-on-fire-los-angeles-martin-filler/
https://archive.ph/PVJpm
#CaliforniaWildfires #LAwildfires #LAfires #CaliforniaFires #California #urbanism #UrbanTheory #FireEcology #ecocide #LA #cities

MEP webinar with journalist/scholar Dennis Broe

#LosAngeles is Burning

"[I]n the spirit of Mike Davis, Broe will take us deep into #LA's geology, #ecology, neoliberal politics, and the sedimented #inequalities of class and race."

description: https://marxedproject.org/event/la-is-burning-with-dennis-broe/

replay: https://youtu.be/O4oHeJboBXw
#LAwildfires #CaliforniaWildfires #LAfires #CaliforniaFires #FireEcology #ecocide #urbanism #UrbanTheory #politicalTheory #socialEcology #inequality #cities

MEP webinar with journalist/scholar Dennis Broe

#LosAngeles is Burning

"[I]n the spirit of Mike Davis, Broe will take us deep into #LA's geology, #ecology, neoliberal politics, and the sedimented #inequalities of class and race."

description: https://marxedproject.org/event/la-is-burning-with-dennis-broe/

replay: https://youtu.be/O4oHeJboBXw
#LAwildfires #CaliforniaWildfires #LAfires #CaliforniaFires #FireEcology #ecocide #urbanism #UrbanTheory #politicalTheory #socialEcology #inequality #cities

MEP webinar with journalist/scholar Dennis Broe

#LosAngeles is Burning

"[I]n the spirit of Mike Davis, Broe will take us deep into #LA's geology, #ecology, neoliberal politics, and the sedimented #inequalities of class and race."

description: https://marxedproject.org/event/la-is-burning-with-dennis-broe/

replay: https://youtu.be/O4oHeJboBXw
#LAwildfires #CaliforniaWildfires #LAfires #CaliforniaFires #FireEcology #ecocide #urbanism #UrbanTheory #politicalTheory #socialEcology #inequality #cities

MEP webinar with journalist/scholar Dennis Broe

#LosAngeles is Burning

"[I]n the spirit of Mike Davis, Broe will take us deep into #LA's geology, #ecology, neoliberal politics, and the sedimented #inequalities of class and race."

description: https://marxedproject.org/event/la-is-burning-with-dennis-broe/

replay: https://youtu.be/O4oHeJboBXw
#LAwildfires #CaliforniaWildfires #LAfires #CaliforniaFires #FireEcology #ecocide #urbanism #UrbanTheory #politicalTheory #socialEcology #inequality #cities

"The loss of more than 90 per cent of #SouthernCalifornia’s agricultural buffer zone is the principal if seldom mentioned reason #wildfires increasingly incinerate such spectacular swathes of luxury real estate. [...] what makes us most vulnerable is the abruptness of what is called the ‘wildland-urban interface’, where real estate collides with #FireEcology." - #MikeDavis

#California Burns (2007)

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v29/n22/mike-davis/california-burns
#CaliforniaFires #LAFires #ecocide #ecology #urbanism #UrbanTheory

"The loss of more than 90 per cent of #SouthernCalifornia’s agricultural buffer zone is the principal if seldom mentioned reason #wildfires increasingly incinerate such spectacular swathes of luxury real estate. [...] what makes us most vulnerable is the abruptness of what is called the ‘wildland-urban interface’, where real estate collides with #FireEcology." - #MikeDavis

#California Burns (2007)

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v29/n22/mike-davis/california-burns
#CaliforniaFires #LAFires #ecocide #ecology #urbanism #UrbanTheory

"The loss of more than 90 per cent of #SouthernCalifornia’s agricultural buffer zone is the principal if seldom mentioned reason #wildfires increasingly incinerate such spectacular swathes of luxury real estate. [...] what makes us most vulnerable is the abruptness of what is called the ‘wildland-urban interface’, where real estate collides with #FireEcology." - #MikeDavis

#California Burns (2007)

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v29/n22/mike-davis/california-burns
#CaliforniaFires #LAFires #ecocide #ecology #urbanism #UrbanTheory

"The loss of more than 90 per cent of #SouthernCalifornia’s agricultural buffer zone is the principal if seldom mentioned reason #wildfires increasingly incinerate such spectacular swathes of luxury real estate. [...] what makes us most vulnerable is the abruptness of what is called the ‘wildland-urban interface’, where real estate collides with #FireEcology." - #MikeDavis

#California Burns (2007)

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v29/n22/mike-davis/california-burns
#CaliforniaFires #LAFires #ecocide #ecology #urbanism #UrbanTheory

"From the mixed pine and oak forest in the Klamath Mountains to the Mojave Desert, Sierra Foothills, there is not an inch of California that is not now part of this conflagration and it's true throughout the American West of course"

2 great interviews from 2018 & 2021 on KPFK with the late Angeleno essayist #MikeDavis about #urbanism, "#FireEcology," colonial capitalism & #ecocide in #California

https://player.fm/series/kpfk-beneath-the-surface-2605305/beneath-the-surface-sunday-january-12-2025
#CaliforniaFires #ForestFires #ecology #UrbanTheory #LosAngeles

"From the mixed pine and oak forest in the Klamath Mountains to the Mojave Desert, Sierra Foothills, there is not an inch of California that is not now part of this conflagration and it's true throughout the American West of course"

2 great interviews from 2018 & 2021 on KPFK with the late Angeleno essayist #MikeDavis about #urbanism, "#FireEcology," colonial capitalism & #ecocide in #California

https://player.fm/series/kpfk-beneath-the-surface-2605305/beneath-the-surface-sunday-january-12-2025
#CaliforniaFires #ForestFires #ecology #UrbanTheory #LosAngeles

"From the mixed pine and oak forest in the Klamath Mountains to the Mojave Desert, Sierra Foothills, there is not an inch of California that is not now part of this conflagration and it's true throughout the American West of course"

2 great interviews from 2018 & 2021 on KPFK with the late Angeleno essayist #MikeDavis about #urbanism, "#FireEcology," colonial capitalism & #ecocide in #California

https://player.fm/series/kpfk-beneath-the-surface-2605305/beneath-the-surface-sunday-january-12-2025
#CaliforniaFires #ForestFires #ecology #UrbanTheory #LosAngeles

"From the mixed pine and oak forest in the Klamath Mountains to the Mojave Desert, Sierra Foothills, there is not an inch of California that is not now part of this conflagration and it's true throughout the American West of course"

2 great interviews from 2018 & 2021 on KPFK with the late Angeleno essayist #MikeDavis about #urbanism, "#FireEcology," colonial capitalism & #ecocide in #California

https://player.fm/series/kpfk-beneath-the-surface-2605305/beneath-the-surface-sunday-january-12-2025
#CaliforniaFires #ForestFires #ecology #UrbanTheory #LosAngeles

Naturally someone has already put the two together:

Before Design, More-than-Design: Elucidating “Ontological Design” by Cameron Tonkinwise

Open access link to the academic article: https://doi.org/10.1080/17547075.2022.2105529

#urbanplanning #urbantheory #architecture #design

Naturally someone has already put the two together:

Before Design, More-than-Design: Elucidating “Ontological Design” by Cameron Tonkinwise

Open access link to the academic article: https://doi.org/10.1080/17547075.2022.2105529

#urbanplanning #urbantheory #architecture #design

Naturally someone has already put the two together:

Before Design, More-than-Design: Elucidating “Ontological Design” by Cameron Tonkinwise

Open access link to the academic article: https://doi.org/10.1080/17547075.2022.2105529

#urbanplanning #urbantheory #architecture #design

Naturally someone has already put the two together:

Before Design, More-than-Design: Elucidating “Ontological Design” by Cameron Tonkinwise

Open access link to the academic article: https://doi.org/10.1080/17547075.2022.2105529

#urbanplanning #urbantheory #architecture #design

Hi, I'm an #urban researcher interested in how #comparative approaches can reshape the ways we understand #place, #urbantheory & theory-making. This led me to study art spaces & #biennials in cities like #Beijing #Berlin #Dakar #Taipei. I also find #urbanChina research a perennial curiosity in terms of its relationship to exceptionalism & urban canon. Currently reading #crueloptimism, thinking about #everydaycrisis & employed at Dept of #Geography, University of #Zurich.
@geography #introduction

Hi, I'm an #urban researcher interested in how #comparative approaches can reshape the ways we understand #place, #urbantheory & theory-making. This led me to study art spaces & #biennials in cities like #Beijing #Berlin #Dakar #Taipei. I also find #urbanChina research a perennial curiosity in terms of its relationship to exceptionalism & urban canon. Currently reading #crueloptimism, thinking about #everydaycrisis & employed at Dept of #Geography, University of #Zurich.
@geography #introduction

Hi, I'm an #urban researcher interested in how #comparative approaches can reshape the ways we understand #place, #urbantheory & theory-making. This led me to study art spaces & #biennials in cities like #Beijing #Berlin #Dakar #Taipei. I also find #urbanChina research a perennial curiosity in terms of its relationship to exceptionalism & urban canon. Currently reading #crueloptimism, thinking about #everydaycrisis & employed at Dept of #Geography, University of #Zurich.
@geography #introduction

Hi, I'm an #urban researcher interested in how #comparative approaches can reshape the ways we understand #place, #urbantheory & theory-making. This led me to study art spaces & #biennials in cities like #Beijing #Berlin #Dakar #Taipei. I also find #urbanChina research a perennial curiosity in terms of its relationship to exceptionalism & urban canon. Currently reading #crueloptimism, thinking about #everydaycrisis & employed at Dept of #Geography, University of #Zurich.
@geography #introduction

#helloworld

I am associate professor at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. My work sits at the intersection of #urbantheory, #criticalgeography and #planninghistory. I'm interested in the history of spatial struggles around the #commons and the nexus of urban processes and political economy more generally.

I just published Against the Commons: A Radical History of Urban Planning (U. Minnesota Press, 2022 - https://bit.ly/3EITzMh).

Links to some of my publications:
https://bit.ly/3EeWBGK

#helloworld

I am associate professor at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. My work sits at the intersection of #urbantheory, #criticalgeography and #planninghistory. I'm interested in the history of spatial struggles around the #commons and the nexus of urban processes and political economy more generally.

I just published Against the Commons: A Radical History of Urban Planning (U. Minnesota Press, 2022 - https://bit.ly/3EITzMh).

Links to some of my publications:
https://bit.ly/3EeWBGK

#helloworld

I am associate professor at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. My work sits at the intersection of #urbantheory, #criticalgeography and #planninghistory. I'm interested in the history of spatial struggles around the #commons and the nexus of urban processes and political economy more generally.

I just published Against the Commons: A Radical History of Urban Planning (U. Minnesota Press, 2022 - https://bit.ly/3EITzMh).

Links to some of my publications:
https://bit.ly/3EeWBGK