Municipalism pt.2 - Contemporary Manifestations

Cities After… with Miguel Robles-Duran

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Cities After… with Prof. Miguel Robles-Durán. A radical exploration into the capitalist contradictions of our urban world, and the many anti-capitalist futures to come.

This episode is part 2 of 2, where Prof. Robles-Durán attempts a deeper dive into the concept of Municipalism by examining its contemporary application through some key influences, and a few examples, including projects that he has had the privilege of working on. Prof. Robles-Durán also takes this opportunity to build upon Marx’s critique of Proudhon’s Mutualism, and Murray Bookchin's foundational work on Social Ecology to offer a fresh perspective on Municipalism's relevance, and the contradictions it faces as it seeks to address the complex challenges of our modern era. But most importantly, he argues for its theoretical and real-world potential for transforming the 21st century towards anti-capitalist dominance.

Please note that in episode one, where Prof. Robles-Durán laid out some of the core foundational arguments of Municipalism that are essential for following this episode. If you haven’t listened to it, we encourage you to do so before listening to this episode.

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Miguel Robles-Durán is an urbanist and Marxist urban theorist working at the intersections of urban political-ecology, unitary urbanism, and the design of social and environmentally just urban processes. He is a tenured Associate Professor of Urbanism at The New School / Parsons School of Design in New York City. Robles-Durán is founding partner and co-director of Urban Front, a transnational consultancy for urban justice. He is also a founding board member of The Shape of Cities to Come Institute, a New York City based co-learning and strategizing platform for urban activism. Robles-Durán's work with the New York City and Rotterdam-based design cooperative Cohabitation Strategies (CohStra) has been influential to the contemporary development of socially-engaged forms of urban practice.

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