With the usual apologies for cross-posting
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Dear all,
We are pleased to announce the Call for Papers for the next issue of the Spanish journal Urban, which will be dedicated to exploring ‘Critical Landscapes’ (see below). Urban is a key publication in the planning field in Spain and Latin America, providing a bridge into this exciting audience for authors from the rest of the world: 29 pieces from 19 different countries have already been published in the three issues of our new series, including contributors such as Neil Brenner, Mike Davis, Simin Davoudi, Stuart Elden, John Friedmann, Cristina Gibelli, Derek Gregory, Peter Hall, Peter Marcuse, Andy Merrifield, Don Mitchell, Thierry Paquot, Jamie Peck, Saskia Sassen, Christian Schmid, Lukasz Stanek, Erik Swyngedouw, Nik Theodore, Loïc Wacquant…
You are welcome to submit your contributions. For more information, visit our website (http://www.aq.upm.es/Departamentos/Urbanismo/publicaciones/urban.html) or send your inquiries to [log in to unmask]
Best regards,
Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago
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Call for Papers – ‘Critical Landscapes’
Deadline for submissions: 15 May 2012
Discourse about landscape is now quite generalised and —probing more deeply into a tradition which in some countries goes back to the origins of spatial planning— has recently become institutionalised in a series of regulatory texts, directives and figures which point to alternative ways of designing and dealing with territorial processes.
But is landscape really a gnosiological and technical innovation —a new disciplinary paradigm that will completely change our way of doing things— or is it merely a passing fad — or, even worse, a dissuasive principle for embellishing processes that remain the same? Does landscape provide a profound reading key for our environment or does it entail a mere collection of images that separates us from it and de-contextualises it? Are the approaches that put landscape at the centre of its interests able to handle logics of action that evolve together with territory or are they targeted at a fixed photograph, a frozen stasis that blocks the capacity for change in cities and regions? How does the landscape concept open up a gateway for the entry of cultural and identitary aspects in urban planning debates? What separates it from or binds it to other concepts/instruments such as ‘space’, ‘place’, ‘territory’…? What are its economic and political perspectives and articulations?
We intend to open up the public forum of Urban to ideas aimed at establishing a critical evaluation of contributions, findings, contradictions and conflicts that are based on thought and the use of landscape in terms of research and planning with respect to cities and regions. It would be highly desirable for the texts to encompass the entire diversity of meanings and approaches that enable landscape to play a prominent role in a wide array of disciplines, from anthropology to urban planning and from geography and history to art criticism, cultural studies and sociology.
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Alvaro Sevilla-Buitrago
Urban — Editor in Chief
DEPARTAMENTO DE URBANISTICA Y ORDENACION DEL TERRITORIO
ESCUELA TECNICA SUPERIOR DE ARQUITECTURA DE MADRID
Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
Avenida Juan de Herrera, 4 – 28040 Madrid
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