El
Instituto de Estudios Urbanos y
Territoriales (unidad académica de la Facultad de Arquitectura, Diseño y
Estudios Urbanos de la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile) tiene el agrado de
invitarlos a la conferencia que realizará Neil Brenner en Chile, titulada “The Explosion of the Urban”.
Esta importante instancia tendrá lugar el
día Miércoles 9 de Marzo de
2016 a las 18.30 hrs. en el Auditorio FADEU, Campus Lo Contador, El
Comendador 1916, Providencia, Santiago de Chile.
The Explosion of the Urban
Neil Brenner
In what sense is the contemporary world
“urban”? In this lecture, Neil Brenner critiques contemporary
ideologies of the “urban age,” which confront this question with
reference to the purported fact that more than 50 percent of the world’s
population resides within cities. Against such city-centric understandings,
which relegate most of the world to a non-urban “exterior,” Brenner
excavates Henri Lefebvre’s notion of generalised urbanisation for insights into
the emergent planetary urban condition. He argues that the geographies of
urbanization can no longer be conceptualized only with reference to cities,
megacities or metropolitan regions, but today encompass diverse patterns and
pathways of land-use intensification and infrastructural development
across the planetary landscape, from Manhattan to the Matterhorn, from the
Pearl River Delta to Mount Everest, from the Nile River valley to the Pacific
Ocean. This variegated urban fabric must become a central focal point
for new approaches to urban theory, strategies of collective intervention and
design imaginaries.
Neil Brenner is Professor of Urban Theory at the Harvard
Graduate School of Design, where he teaches classes on critical urban theory,
urbanization, urban/territorial governance and sociospatial
theory. Brenner’s most recent book is Implosions/Explosions:
Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization (Jovis, 2013); he is also the
author of New State Spaces: Urban Governance and the Rescaling of
Statehood (Oxford University Press, 2004). Forthcoming books
include New Urban Spaces: Urban Theory and the Scale Question (Oxford
University Press, 2016); Critique of Urbanization (Bauwelt Fundamente
Series / Birkhäuser Verlag, 2016); and Is the World Urban? Towards a
Critique of Geospatial Ideology (with Nikos Katsikis; Actar,
2016). In 2014, Brenner was selected as a Thompson Reuters Highly
Cited Researcher (www.highlycited.com). Based on Web of Science
data, his publications were ranked among the top 1% most cited globally in the
general social sciences between 2002 and 2012. Brenner directs the
Urban Theory Lab at the Harvard GSD, a research team that uses the tools of
critical urban theory, historical geopolitical economy and radical
cartography to decipher emergent patterns of urbanization under twenty-first
century capitalism.
Invitan
Pontificia
Universidad Católica de Chile
Escuela
de Arquitectura UC
Instituto
de Estudios Urbanos y Territoriales UC
Instituto
de Geografía UC
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