Fragen der sozialen Wohnungsversorgung bestimmen seit vielen Jahren stadt- und wohnungspolitische Debatten um ausreichend Wohnraum und Mietpreissteigerungen. Nur wenig thematisiert werden dabei jedoch Wohnbedarfe einer diversen und marginalisierten Bevölkerung. Doch gerade für diese Bevölkerungsgruppen bestehen…
Category: Infrastructures
Hydraulic standby – paper published in ephemera
Hydraulic standby: Anticipating water in Mexico City, my paper for the Standby: Organizing modes of in|activity special issue of ephemera was published today. abstract Even in cities where taps are installed in virtually all homes,…
Book review: Watson’s 2019 City Water Matters (IJURR)
IJURR has just published my book review of Sophie Watson's 2019 City Water Matters: Cultures, Practices and Entanglements of Urban Water. in Vol. 44 No. 6, pp. 1099-1100. https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-2427.12970
Análisis socio-espacial del consumo de agua. Seminario@El Colegio de México, Septiembre 14, 2018
Invitación al seminario con la participación de Anke Schwarz @ El Colegio de México, Centro de Estudios Demográficos, Urbanos y Ambientales La ponencia se basa en mi libro Demanding Water. A Sociospatial Approach to Domestic…
Book review: A sudden drop in pressure – Anand’s 2017 Hydraulic City
A sudden drop in pressure, my review of Nikhil Anand's highly recommendable 2017 book Hydraulic City has just been published in City, Volume 22 No. 1, pages 178-182. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13604813.2018.1428272 Sorry about the paywall - you…
Urban DIY Mesh Networks and the Right to the City: An Interview with the Tapullo Collective
Wireless community networks have been around for a while and are regaining some attention these days as means of strengthening local interaction and community organizing. In Genoa, a group of people, some of them members…
What are infrastructures to the urban? Lecture@TU Berlin, January 23, 2018
What are infrastructures to the urban? Lecture by Dr. Anke Schwarz at the Center for Metropolitan Studies (CMS). Part of Prof. Dorothee Brantz' lecture series Urban Societies in Time and Space. Tue January 23, 2018…