Neoliberal Urbanization in Mexico

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 the first of several to come where Politics In Motion will be re-publishing some of the previous productions that I did on a volunteer basis for democracy@work. The first of these, is without doubt the most personal of all of them. Here, Prof. Robles-Durán threads his experience living in Mexico with violent transformations imposed by the American Neoliberal Order, from the Volcker Shock in 1980, to the North American Free Trade Agreement, and into the post 9-11 border condition in Tijuana. We hope that this episode leaves you with a deeper understanding of American Imperialism, Neoliberalism and how it mirrors through urbanization from within. _________________________________________________________________________

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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