Alvaro Sevilla-Buitrago
Biographic Data
| ID | 1448703 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alvaro Sevilla-Buitrago |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alvaro |
| FAMILY NAME | Sevilla-Buitrago |
| SIGNATURE | SEVILLA-BUITRAGO A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidad Politécnica de Madrid |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9243-4265 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
On commonist urbanisation
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 limited explanatory power rather than a more substantive socio-geographical condition inviting critical analysis. Is this urban condition essential to prefigure a communal, postcapitalist alternative? Can commoning and urbanisation work as a dialectic of interconnected, multiscalar processe…
What is radical planning history
The project of radical planning history offers a critical, positive response to these questions.Expanding and deepening existing heterodox approaches, it provides a comprehensive frameworkfor rethinking both planning ideologies and the epistemological foundations of the field, makingour research not only more politically engaged but also more intellectually vibrant. Radicalplanning history is ‘radical’ because (a) it prioritizes grassroots perspe…
Movimiento Moderno y derecho a la ciudad
La noción de ‘derecho a la ciudad’ es hoy un slogan popular tanto en la academia como en las políticas institucionales y los movimientos sociales. Muchas de estas manifestaciones, sin embargo, se alejan del sentido inicial que Henri Lefebvre asignó al concepto hace más de 50 años. Su fórmula original era en sí misma esquiva y requiere una contextualización en el ciclo de trabajos desarrollados por el autor entre 1960 y mediados de los 1970s. El t…
Gramsci and Foucault in Central Park
Gramsci's and Foucault's readings of power provide critical illuminations for understanding the linkage of state formations to urbanization and the spatial production of subjectivity. This article uses Central Park to illustrate how a combination of their insights helps to elucidate the emergence of pedagogical spaces and environmental hegemonies. I first propose a conceptual framework drawing on diverse parallels and tensions in Gramsci's Quader…
Capitalist Formations of Enclosure
Despite their theoretical and political potential, recent debates on enclosure usually lack an effective consideration of how space is mobilized in the process of dispossession. This article connects the analysis of enclosure's general spatial rationality to a range of illustrations of its particular formations and procedures. Enclosure is understood as one of capitalism's “universal territorial equivalents”, a polymorphous technique with variega…
Implosions /Explosions
In 1970, Henri Lefebvre put forward the radical hypothesis of the complete urbanization of society, a circumstance that in his view required a radical shift from the analysis of urban form to the investigation of urbanization processes. Drawing together classic and contemporary texts on the “urbanization question”, this book explores various theoretical, epistemological, methodological and political implications of Lefebvre’s hypothesis. It assem…
Central Park y la producción del espacio público
Los debates contemporáneos sobre el eclipse del espacio público suelen ofrecer una visión idealizada de su pasado, impidiendo una correcta reconsideración del papel que las técnicas urbanísticas han tenido en la producción y evolución del mismo. Contribuyendo al desarrollo de una historia crítica que subsane estas lagunas, Central Park se presenta aquí como un dispositivo gubernamental ideado para sustituir el régimen de uso del espacio público h…
Central Park against the streets
The industrialization of New York and its rise to economic dominance brought about a major restructuring of street life and unleashed an array of contradictory everyday urban cultures. In a still under-regulated environment, the commoning of public space became a key sociospatial capital that helped the working classes resolve their reproduction in a way the elite found disturbing and far removed from the civic order they were trying to instil. T…
Debating contemporary urban conflicts
Territory and the governmentalisation of social reproduction
Capitalist Formations of Enclosure
Despite their theoretical and political potential, recent debates on enclosure usually lack an effective consideration of how space is mobilized in the process of dispossession. This article connects the analysis of enclosure's general spatial rationality to a range of illustrations of its particular formations and procedures. Enclosure is understood as one of capitalism's “universal territorial equivalents”, a polymorphous technique with variega…
Gramsci and Foucault in Central Park
Gramsci's and Foucault's readings of power provide critical illuminations for understanding the linkage of state formations to urbanization and the spatial production of subjectivity. This article uses Central Park to illustrate how a combination of their insights helps to elucidate the emergence of pedagogical spaces and environmental hegemonies. I first propose a conceptual framework drawing on diverse parallels and tensions in Gramsci's Quader…
Territory and the governmentalisation of social reproduction
Debating contemporary urban conflicts
Central Park against the streets
The industrialization of New York and its rise to economic dominance brought about a major restructuring of street life and unleashed an array of contradictory everyday urban cultures. In a still under-regulated environment, the commoning of public space became a key sociospatial capital that helped the working classes resolve their reproduction in a way the elite found disturbing and far removed from the civic order they were trying to instil. T…
What is radical planning history
The project of radical planning history offers a critical, positive response to these questions.Expanding and deepening existing heterodox approaches, it provides a comprehensive frameworkfor rethinking both planning ideologies and the epistemological foundations of the field, makingour research not only more politically engaged but also more intellectually vibrant. Radicalplanning history is ‘radical’ because (a) it prioritizes grassroots perspe…
Territory and the governmentalisation of social reproduction
Debating contemporary urban conflicts
Central Park y la producción del espacio público
Los debates contemporáneos sobre el eclipse del espacio público suelen ofrecer una visión idealizada de su pasado, impidiendo una correcta reconsideración del papel que las técnicas urbanísticas han tenido en la producción y evolución del mismo. Contribuyendo al desarrollo de una historia crítica que subsane estas lagunas, Central Park se presenta aquí como un dispositivo gubernamental ideado para sustituir el régimen de uso del espacio público h…
Central Park against the streets
The industrialization of New York and its rise to economic dominance brought about a major restructuring of street life and unleashed an array of contradictory everyday urban cultures. In a still under-regulated environment, the commoning of public space became a key sociospatial capital that helped the working classes resolve their reproduction in a way the elite found disturbing and far removed from the civic order they were trying to instil. T…
Capitalist Formations of Enclosure
Despite their theoretical and political potential, recent debates on enclosure usually lack an effective consideration of how space is mobilized in the process of dispossession. This article connects the analysis of enclosure's general spatial rationality to a range of illustrations of its particular formations and procedures. Enclosure is understood as one of capitalism's “universal territorial equivalents”, a polymorphous technique with variega…
Implosions /Explosions
In 1970, Henri Lefebvre put forward the radical hypothesis of the complete urbanization of society, a circumstance that in his view required a radical shift from the analysis of urban form to the investigation of urbanization processes. Drawing together classic and contemporary texts on the “urbanization question”, this book explores various theoretical, epistemological, methodological and political implications of Lefebvre’s hypothesis. It assem…
Gramsci and Foucault in Central Park
Gramsci's and Foucault's readings of power provide critical illuminations for understanding the linkage of state formations to urbanization and the spatial production of subjectivity. This article uses Central Park to illustrate how a combination of their insights helps to elucidate the emergence of pedagogical spaces and environmental hegemonies. I first propose a conceptual framework drawing on diverse parallels and tensions in Gramsci's Quader…
Movimiento Moderno y derecho a la ciudad
La noción de ‘derecho a la ciudad’ es hoy un slogan popular tanto en la academia como en las políticas institucionales y los movimientos sociales. Muchas de estas manifestaciones, sin embargo, se alejan del sentido inicial que Henri Lefebvre asignó al concepto hace más de 50 años. Su fórmula original era en sí misma esquiva y requiere una contextualización en el ciclo de trabajos desarrollados por el autor entre 1960 y mediados de los 1970s. El t…
What is radical planning history
The project of radical planning history offers a critical, positive response to these questions.Expanding and deepening existing heterodox approaches, it provides a comprehensive frameworkfor rethinking both planning ideologies and the epistemological foundations of the field, makingour research not only more politically engaged but also more intellectually vibrant. Radicalplanning history is ‘radical’ because (a) it prioritizes grassroots perspe…
On commonist urbanisation
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 limited explanatory power rather than a more substantive socio-geographical condition inviting critical analysis. Is this urban condition essential to prefigure a communal, postcapitalist alternative? Can commoning and urbanisation work as a dialectic of interconnected, multiscalar processe…
Political science (6 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Urban Planning and Governance (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Urbanization and City Planning (3 works)