Category Archives: urban/urbanisation

Łukasz Stanek interviews Mario Gaviria about Henri Lefebvre’s Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment

Posted on May 5, 2014 by stuartelden

With Henri Lefebvre’s Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment about to be published, editor Łukasz Stanek interviews Mario Gaviria – who originally commissioned the book from Lefebvre. He also edited Lefebvre’s collection Du rural à l’urbain. You can watch the interview about Gaviria’s own “research, … Continue reading →

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Benjamin Fraser (ed.), Marxism and Urban Culture

Posted on May 5, 2014 by stuartelden

Interesting collection of essays on Marxism and Urban Culture, edited by Benjamin Fraser (author of Henri Lefebvre and the Spanish Urban Experience, and editor of the Journal of Urban Cultural Studies, with a preface by Andy Merrifield. Thanks to Adam David Morton for the … Continue reading →

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David Harvey, Megacities Lecture 4: Possible Urban Worlds – pdf online

Posted on May 1, 2014 by stuartelden

In 2000 David Harvey gave the Megacities Lecture 4: Possible Urban Worlds Twynstra Gudde Management Consultants, Amersfoort, The Netherlands, 2000). It’s the one key text of Harvey’s that I didn’t already know, partly because it doesn’t appear to be on sale … Continue reading →

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Tom Slater’s Bibliography on ‘Territorial Stigmatization’

Posted on May 1, 2014 by stuartelden

This is a useful resource – Tom Slater’s ‘An International Bibliography on Territorial Stigmatization‘. The work on this develops from Loïc Wacquant’s Urban Outcasts, and earlier references, with the suggestion that “the exploration of contemporary urban poverty must start with the powerful … Continue reading →

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Urban theory without an outside: Neil Brenner

Posted on April 30, 2014 by stuartelden

Originally posted on Jeremy J Schmidt:
This has been online for a few weeks, but now made time to watch it – a very helpful lecture by Neil Brenner outlining the work of the Harvard Urban Theory Lab and his edited collection Implosions/Explosions. This, and other … Continue reading →

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Bradley Garrett – Subterranean London, and Will Self on the Place-hacking trial

Posted on April 25, 2014 by stuartelden

Bradley Garrett’s next book, Subterranean London: Cracking the Capital is available to pre-order ahead of its September 2014 publication. If you don’t know Garrett’s earlier Explore Everything: Place-Hacking the City you’re missing out on one of the most interesting and best-illustrated works of … Continue reading →

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Seen from the Window – the view from my NYC apartment

Posted on April 14, 2014 by stuartelden

I’m staying on East 12th Street (corner of Broadway) for the next few weeks. I am right opposite Strand Books… There is a grill over the window, hence the somewhat murky image.

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Nigel Thrift and Steven Koonin discuss urban science and big data

Posted on April 5, 2014 by stuartelden

Nigel Thrift, Vice Chancellor of University of Warwick, and Steven Koonin, Director of New York University’s Center for Urban Science and Progress, partners in this endeavour, discussed the emerging field of applied urban science and informatics, the opportunities it presents, and … Continue reading →

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Henri Lefebvre, Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment – online preview of introduction

Posted on April 2, 2014 by stuartelden

The introduction to Lefebvre’s keenly anticipated Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment is available to read online at Artforum. I will be interviewing editor Łukasz Stanek for the Society and Space open site in the near future.

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Understanding the City: Henri Lefebvre and Urban Studies

Posted on March 24, 2014 by stuartelden

Understanding the City: Henri Lefebvre and Urban Studies – a collection edited by Gülçin Erdi-Lelandais (via here). Henri Lefebvre is undoubtedly one of the most influential thinkers in the field of urban space and its organization; his theories offer reflections still valid for … Continue reading →

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