Philosophers in the City

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Comment by Ronald Sundstrom on May 12, 2013 at 3:05pm

I recently created a Google+ community devoted to "Philosophy & Urban Affairs." I'm in contact with folks inside and outside of philosophy who are doing work in urban affairs and issues of "place" and I wanted to create a space that is public for us to share ideas, developments, and news about our projects. It's a new thing and it isn't assured to get off the ground (so few of these blog-like things do), but I'd like to try anyway. If you'd like to be a part of it, go to:

https://plus.google.com/u/0/communities/102007982396674542980

Comment by Sharon M. Meagher on October 8, 2011 at 11:22am

Peter Marcuse has posted some reflections on Occupy Wall Street and related matters on his blog.  The text is 4 pages, but here is his summary:

 1.                Occupy Wall Street doesn’t      make specific      demands. Understandably. There is a difference between immediate      demands and      claims of rights, and the Occupy movement is about targeting      claims of rights.

2.                This is not only for      strategic reasons – it’s      not their role – but also on principle; its supporters don’t want      to get into      the game, they want to change its unfair rules.

3.                They do not seek consensus      but understand the      inevitably of conflict. They wish to stand with the 99% and      recognize that this      means losses for the 1%,  but      not losses      that would seriously impinge on their needs.

4.                The space they have chosen      to organize their      protest is not classic public space, but space in the heart of the      territory in      which the activities and forces they target operate. It is both a      physically and      a symbolically well-chosen space for their purpose.

 

I’ve added

 

5.                A short reflection on what      I saw and felt at the      march to Zuccotti Park on March 5, and

6.                A somewhat flip comparison      between the Occupy      Wall Street movement and several others, from the tea party to the      reform      Democrats to the fringe cultural conservatives, hinting that they      are all      reacting to much the same basic insecurity/discontent.

 

http://pmarcuse.wordpress.com.

 

Comment by Clarissa Hayward on August 15, 2011 at 1:34pm

Dear Philosophers in the City group members,

 

Just a quick note to let you know about a new volume I edited with Todd Swanstrom, Justice and the American Metropolis, which is just out from the University of Minnesota Press.

 

We have a terrific list of contributors, including Susan Fainstein, Richard Thompson Ford, Gerald Frug, Loren King, Margaret Kohn, Stephen Macedo, Douglas Rae, Clarence Stone, Margaret Weir, and Thad Williamson, all of whom address the question of what justice requires in the contemporary metropolis.

 

Here is a link to the press’s page for the book:

http://www.upress.umn.edu/book-division/books/justice-and-the-ameri...

 

Here is a link to the press’s exam copy policy. Because the paperback is priced at $25, any university instructor who is considering adopting it for a course can order an exam copy.

http://www.upress.umn.edu/information/examination-and-desk-copies

 

I hope you like the book!

 

All best,

Clarissa 

Comment by Ross Lawrence Wolfe on August 13, 2011 at 8:52am

Those who are interested in original research, Russian/German/French translation, and what I consider to be a fairly audacious reading of modernist urbanism may be interested in my forthcoming thesis, which I'm releasing in excerpts.  I would very much like to know what people would have to say about the following:

 

"The Graveyard of Utopia: Soviet Urbanism and the Fate of the Inter... (section 1)

"The Graveyard of Utopia: Soviet Urbanism and the Fate of the Inter... (section 2)

Comment by Sharon M. Meagher on July 22, 2011 at 1:44pm

I hope that members will join me at the workshop Philosophy and/in the City at the PPN conference, Oct. 6-8 2011 in Washington, DC. The workshop itself will be on the afternoon of Oct. 7th. I'm looking for members of the Philosophy and the City affinity group to participate actively, sharing their relevant research, teaching and community-based project ideas. If you register for the conference SOON, you will get an official acceptance letter and be listed on the program.

Comment by Ross Lawrence Wolfe on June 30, 2011 at 6:56pm

Some translations from Russian:

 

Bruno Taut's "The Disintegration of the City" (1930)

Nikolai Ladovskii's "Moscow: 'Historical' and Socialist" (1930)

"The Past that Wasn't: International Modernism and the Palace of th...

Comment by Ross Lawrence Wolfe on June 30, 2011 at 6:25pm

Check out my posts for some writings by the architects/urbanists Bruno Taut of Germany and Nikolai Ladovskii of Russia.

Comment by Remmon Barbaza on June 26, 2011 at 5:35am

Thanks, Sharon, for putting up this group, and for your work on philosophy and the city. I look forward to an engaging exchange of ideas and learning from others in the group.

Comment by Sharon M. Meagher on April 25, 2011 at 3:11pm

Your work sounds really interesting.  thanks for the recent posts, and welcome to the Philosophers in the City group.  Sharon

Comment by Ross Lawrence Wolfe on April 23, 2011 at 8:04pm

Right now I am working on my Master's thesis on Soviet avant-garde urbanism in the 1920s.

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