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ÁLVARO SEVILLA‐BUITRAGO Associate Professor Town and Regional Planning Department School of Architecture – Universidad Politécnica de Madrid RESEARCH AREAS Social history of planning; critical urban studies; urban commons & urban enclosure; territorial formations of capitalism; urban social movements. ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS 
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Associate Professor of Town Planning and Urban Studies, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, 2013‐present. Assistant Professor of Town Planning and Urban Studies, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, 2007‐2013. EDUCATION 
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PhD, Town Planning and Urban Studies, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (2009) BA + MArch, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (2003) PUBLICATIONS 
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Sevilla Buitrago, A., ed. (2017) Neil Brenner: teoría urbana crítica y políticas de escala, Barcelona: Icaria. Articles in peer‐reviewed journals: o
Sevilla‐Buitrago, A. (forthcoming 2017) Martin Wagner in America: planning and the political economy of capitalist urbanization, Planning Perspectives. o
Sevilla‐Buitrago, A. (forthcoming 2017) Aporías de una ideología urbanística: arquitectura, territorio y capitalismo en el trabajo de Martin Wagner [Aporias of a planning ideology: architecture, territory and capitalism in the work of Martin Wagner], Scripta Nova. o
Sevilla‐Buitrago, A. (forthcoming 2017) Gramsci and Foucault in Central Park: environmental hegemonies, pedagogical spaces and integral state formations, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. o
Sevilla‐Buitrago, A. (2015) Capitalist formations of enclosure: space and the extinction of the commons, Antipode 47, pp. 999–1020. o
Sevilla‐Buitrago, A. (2015) Outraged spatialities: the production of public space in the #spanishrevolution, ACME: An International E‐Journal for Critical Geographies 18, pp. 90‐103. Special section: Geographies of 15‐M: crisis, austerity and social movements in Spain. o
Sevilla‐Buitrago, A. (2015) Urbanismo, crisis y austeridad [Urbanism, crisis and austerity], Ciudades 18, pp. 31‐48. o
Sevilla‐Buitrago, A. (2014) Central Park against the streets: the enclosure of public space cultures in mid‐nineteenth century New York, Social & Cultural Geography 15, pp. 151‐171. o
Sevilla‐Buitrago, A. (2014) Central Park y la producción del espacio público: el uso de la ciudad y la regulación del comportamiento urbano en la historia [Central Park and the production of public REGIONAL AND TOWN PLANNING DEPARTMENT —
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space: city use and the regulation of urban behavior in history], Revista EURE – Revista de Estudios Urbano Regionales 40, pp. 55‐74. 
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Sevilla Buitrago, A. (2014) Para una historia social de la planificación. Cuestiones conceptuales y metodológicas [For a social history of planning: methodological and conceptual questions], Empiria. Revista de metodología de ciencias sociales 27:49‐72. o
Sevilla‐Buitrago, A. (2013) Debating contemporary urban conflicts: A survey of selected scholars, Cities 31:454–468. o
Sevilla‐Buitrago, A. (2013) ¿Planificar los comunes? Autogestión, regulación comunal del suelo y su eclipse en la Inglaterra precapitalista [Planning the commons? Self‐management, communal land regulation and enclosure in precapitalist England], Scripta Nova. Revista de Geografía y Ciencias Sociales XXII. o
Sevilla‐Buitrago, A. (2012) Territory and the governmentalisation of social reproduction: parliamentary enclosure and spatial rationalities in the transition from feudalism to capitalism, Journal of Historical Geography 38: 209–219. o
Sevilla‐Buitrago, A. (2012) Conflictos de la ciudad contemporánea: Un sondeo internacional [Conflicts of contemporary cities: an international questionnaire], Urban, new series 3:107‐137. o
Elden, S., Gregory, D. & Sevilla‐Buitrago, A. (2011) Spaces of the Past, Histories of the Present: An Interview with Stuart Elden and Derek Gregory, ACME: An International E‐Journal for Critical Geographies 10:313‐339. o
Sevilla‐Buitrago, A. (2011) Cenizas de Gotha, espectros de Lefebvre: derecho a la ciudad y urbanismo alternativo en el ocaso del Estado Social [Ashes of Gotha, spectres of Lefebvre: right to the city and alternative urbanism in the eclipse of the Social State], Biblio 3W. Revista bibliográfica de geografía y ciencias sociales XVI. o
Sevilla‐Buitrago, A. (2010) Hacia el origen de la planificación: territorio, enclosure acts y cambio social en la transición del feudalismo al capitalismo [Towards the origins of planning: territory, enclosure acts and social change in the transition from feudalism to capitalism], Ciudades 13:165‐
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Sevilla‐Buitrago, A. (2008) La ciudad y el eclipse de la experiencia. Notas para una historia crítica de la ordenación territorial [The city and the eclipse of experience: notes for a critical history of territory], Polis 7:151‐177. o
Sevilla‐Buitrago, A. (2004) Großstadtkultur, el debate sobre la gran ciudad en la Alemania Guillermina [Großstadtkultur: the debate about the metrópolis in Kaiser Wilhelm Germany], Ciudades 8:201‐227. Book chapters: o
Sevilla‐Buitrago, A. (2015) Urbanism and dictatorship: perspectives from the field of urban studies, in M. Welch Guerra, H. Bodenschatz and P. Sassi, P. (eds.) Urbanism and Dictatorship. A European Perspective, Basel: Birkhäuser, pp. 27‐35. o
Sevilla‐Buitrago, A. (2015) Crisis and the city: neoliberalism, austerity planning and the production of space, in F. Eckardt and J. Ruiz (eds.) City of Crisis. The Multiple Contestation of Southern European Cities, Bielefeld: Transcript, pp. 31‐49. o
Sevilla‐Buitrago, A. (2013) Urbs in Rure: Historical enclosure and the extended urbanization of the countryside, in Brenner, N. (ed.) Implosions / Explosions. Towards an investigation of planetary urbanization. Berlin: Jovis, pp. 236‐259. o
Sevilla‐Buitrago, A. (2013) Espacio público y protesta ciudadana: reflexiones sobre la espacialidad del 15M [Public space and popular protest: reflections about the spatiality of the indignados movement], en Club de Debates Urbanos (ed.), Madrid. Materia de debate, vol. IV, Madrid: Club de Debates Urbanos, pp. 208‐218. REGIONAL AND TOWN PLANNING DEPARTMENT —
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Cifuentes, M., Córdoba, R., Gómez, G., Hernández Pezzi, C., Montes, M., Rodríguez, R. & Sevilla Buitrago, A. (2008) Propuestas para mejorar la calidad de vida en las ciudades. Madrid: Fundación Alternativas. o
Sevilla Buitrago, A. (2007) Ciudad‐Postciudad: lugar, duración, memoria, experiencia. Una indagación crítica en los fundamentos del urbanismo contemporáneo [City‐Postcity: place, duration, memory, experience. A critical exploration of contemporary urbanism]. In Hernández Aja, A. (ed.) Arquitectura del siglo XXI: Más allá de Kioto. Madrid: IAU+S & Mairea Libros. o
Sevilla Buitrago, A. (2003) Manos sobre la ciudad: la construcción de la hegemonía [HAnds over the city: the forge of hegemony]. In Arenillas, T. (ed.) Ecología y Ciudad: raíces de nuestros males y modos de tratarlas. Madrid: El Viejo Topo. Articles in other journals (selection): o
Sevilla‐Buitrago, A. (2015) Lo común y su desmantelamiento, Cuadernos de Investigación Urbanística 100, pp. 130‐133. o
Sevilla‐Buitrago, A. (2014) Spatial divisions of society, Fulcrum 97, p. 1. o
Castrillo, M., Matesanz, A., Sánchez Fuentes D., and Sevilla Buitrago, A. (2014) ¿Regeneración urbana? Deconstrucción y reconstrucción de un concepto incuestionado, Papeles 126, pp. 129‐139. o
Sevilla‐Buitrago, A. (2012) Urbanismo y reproducción social. Una introducción a su historia, Cuadernos de Investigación Urbanística 80:1‐61. o
Sevilla‐Buitrago, A. (2011) ‘This Square is our Home!’: The Organization of Urban Space in the Spanish 15‐M Movement. Progressive Planning 189:42‐49. o
Sevilla Buitrago, A. (2010) Urbanismo, biopolítica, gubernamentalidad: vida y espacio en la renovación de los estudios urbanos. Boletín CF+S 44. o
Sevilla Buitrago, A. (2002) El historiador como productor: proyectos históricos de Nietzsche a Tafuri. Boletín CF+S 21. Review essays and book reviews (selection): o
Sevilla Buitrago, A. (2013) Abriendo Espacios Críticos para el pensamiento socioespacial, Urban, nueva serie 3. Reviewing the books: Benach, Núria & Albet, Abel (2010) Edward W. Soja. La perspectiva postmoderna de un geógrafo radical, Barcelona: Icaria. Albet, Abel & Benach, Núria (2012) Doreen Massey. Un sentido global del lugar, Barcelona: Icaria. Benach, Núria (2012) Richard Peet. Geografía contra el neoliberalismo, Barcelona: Icaria. Nel∙lo, Oriol (2012) Francesco Indovina. Del análisis del territorio al gobierno de la ciudad, Barcelona: Icaria. o
Sevilla‐Buitrago, A. (2012) Recuperando a Henri Lefebvre para la investigación urbanística y arquitectónica. Biblio 3W. Revista bibliográfica de geografía y ciencias sociales, XVII, n.p. Reviewing the book: Stanek, Łukasz (2011). Henri Lefebvre on Space. Architecture, Urban Research, and the Production of Theory. Minneapolis & London: University of Minnesota Press. o
Sevilla‐Buitrago, A. (2011) Escribiendo urbanismos sociales: a propósito del trabajo de Andy Merrifield. Urban, nueva serie 2, pp. 139‐146. Reviewing the books: Merrifield, Andy (2002) Dialectical Urbanism. Social Struggles in the Capitalist City. New York: Monthly Review Press. Merrifield, Andy (2002) Metromarxism: A Marxist Tale of the City. New York: Routledge. Merrifield, Andy (2005) Guy Debord. London: Reaktion Books. Merrifield, Andy (2006) Henri Lefebvre. A Critical Introduction. New York: Routledge. Merrifield, Andy (2008) The Wisdom of Donkeys: Finding Tranquility in a Chaotic World, New York: Walker & Company. Merrifield, Andy (2011) Magical Marxism. Subversive Politics and the Imagination, London & New York: Pluto. REGIONAL AND TOWN PLANNING DEPARTMENT —
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AWARDS AND GRANTS 
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Fulbright Scholar – Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, 2016. Research Sabbatical – Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Spring 2014. Research Sabbatical – Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Spring 2013. Selected Periodical for the Spanish Representation at VIII Iberoamerican Biennial: Journal URBAN, Special Issue: Specters of Lefebvre, 2012. Excellent PhD Dissertation Award, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 2009. United Nations / Spanish Ministry of Civil Works Grant, ‘Cities for a sustainable future’, 2001‐2003. INVITED TALKS (selection)  Art and the collective imagination of the commons | Keynote lecture at conference How Global Critique Becomes Translocal – Reclaiming the Commons, Hochschule Luzern – Design und Kunst, Switzerland, November 2016. 
The Modern Movement and the Right to the City | Keynote lecture at IX Iberian DOCOMOMO Conference, Modern Movement, Cultural Heritage and Participation, Spain, November 2016. 
‘Equity and the City Builders’ | Roundtable speaker at UN‐Habitat Conference A New Justice for the New Urban Agenda, Spain, September 2016. 
The spatial production of community in Francoist postwar Spain: The case of Colonia del Parque Móvil | Invited lecture at conference Urban design and dictatorship in the 20th century, Bauhaus‐Universität Weimar, November 2013. 
Urbanism and everyday life: the production of the city and the eclipse of experience | Invited lecture at conference Hiria eta bestelako politikak, Tabakalera, Centro de Creación de Cultura Contemporánea, Spain, October 2013. 
Territory, planning, enclosure: Towards a genealogy of planetary urbanization | Invited lecture at Urban Theory Lab Research Seminar, Harvard University, USA, May 2013. 
Prometheus in the Cities: Devolving Control over Space to the Citizens | Invited lecture at Colloque International ‘Architecture et Politique’, Société Français des Architectes & Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, May 2012. 
Postcards from Metapolis. Which Media for Future Research? | Invited lecture at II Rencontres François Ascher – The Media of Metapolis. Reflecting the Knowledge Base of Urban Research, Bauhaus‐Universität Weimar, May 2012. 
The production of space and the limits to growth | Keynote lecture at National Conference of Architecture, Consejo Superior de Colegios de Arquitectos de España, Spain, June 2009. COURSES TAUGHT 
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Undergraduate: o Urbanism and the City (lecture + studio – coordinator of 14 faculty) o Introduction to Urbanism (lecture + studio) Graduate: o Planning History and Planning Cultures (lecture) o Urban Structure and Design (lecture) o Territory and Regional Planning (lecture) o Urban Design Practice (studio) o Town Planning Practice (studio) o Urban Research (research seminar) REGIONAL AND TOWN PLANNING DEPARTMENT —
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Urban Lives (research seminar) Sustainable and Equitable Neighborhood Revitalization (seminar with MIT‐DUSP) ADVISING 
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Doctoral Theses (director): o Helga von Breymann | Identity, appropriation, sense of community and residential satisfaction: analytical tools for planning and urban studies, 2015. o Darine Korban Choueiri | Realism and urban reality: planning antagonisms in Equatorial Guinea (in progress). o Alejandro Rodríguez Sebastián | Urban markets and the city: sociospatial evolution of Madrid through its public markets (in progress). Doctoral Theses (committee member): o Serena Muccitelli | La parte per il tutto. La costruzione dell’urbanità negli spazi culturali del SESC São Paulo, Università degli Studi di Roma Tre, 2015. o Azzurra Muzzonigro | Abitare la soglia. Spaze e pratiche per una città plurale, Università degli Studi di Roma Tre, 2015. o Nicola Vazzoler | Intensità urbana. Un rapporto ragionato a partire dal caso di Roma, Università degli Studi di Roma Tre, 2015. o Carlos Santamarina Macho | Cultura y representación del man‐made landscape: La construcción de la imagen de un territorio, EE.UU. 1925‐1975, Universidad de Valladolid, 2015. o Daniel Morcillo Álvarez | La centralidad y la representación de la cotidianidad en la ciudad globalizada. Madrid y la evolución de la Almendra Central de 1998 a 2008, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 2015. o Patricia Molina Costa | Del Plan a la realidad: gobernanza y toma de decisiones en los procesos de regeneración urbana. El caso de Boston, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 2015. o Elia Sáez Giráldez | La ciudad progresiva. Una lectura de los asentamientos humanos de Lima, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 2015. o David Armando Burbano González | Lectura del desplazamiento forzoso por la violencia en Colombia desde el territorio y las condiciones habitacionales. El caso de estudio de Bogotá, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 2014. o Celia Miralles Buil | La tuberculose dans l’espace social barcelonais, 1929 – 1936, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (reviewer). o Netzahualcóyotl López Flores | Bases socio‐espaciales en el crecimiento de la ciudad de Aguascalientes: Procesos de apropiación y segmentación del espacio urbano, Universidad de Valladolid (reviewer). o Oscar Desiderio Soto | La ciudad nómada. Poder y apropiación del espacio en el marco de los procesos de crecimiento urbano en la ciudad de Puebla, Universidad de Valladolid, 2012. o Clara Estrella Romero Unda | Efectos sociales y urbanísticos generados por la implantación del sistema de transporte masivo ‘Transbarca’ en la ciudad de Barquisimeto, Estado Lara, Venezuela, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 2012. Master Theses (director): o Maite Zapiaín Aizpuru | Identity in contemporary landscapes. The case of Vega de Granada, 2010. o Helga von Breymann | Identity and the production of space in processes of urban specialization, 2010. o Taewang Kwong | Production of Space as a Production of Industrial Scale. Spatial Reconfiguration in the Changwon Industrial Complexes, South Korea, 1974‐2010, 2011. o Marta Colmenares | Territorial rescaling in rural settlements. The case of Southern Morocco and the Dräa Valley, 2014. REGIONAL AND TOWN PLANNING DEPARTMENT —
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Darine Korban Choueiri | Beirut 1830‐1920. A ‘scalar fix’ on shifting grounds. A case study exploring rescaling and extended urbanization theories, 2014. María Milagros Fois | The department store as a complementary urban element in cities of the Global South, 2015. Rubén Miguel Águeda | Urbanism and consumption: towards a synthesis of Marxism and urban metabolism, 2015. JOURNAL AND BOOK SERIES EDITORIAL AND ADVISORY BOARDS 
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Editor‐in‐Chief, Urban (main peer‐reviewed journal in the field of Urban Studies in Spain), 2010‐2015. Editorial Advisory Board, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, as of 2016. International Advisory Board, EURE, Revista de Estudios Urbano‐Regionales, 2012‐2014. Advisory Board, ‘Hispanic Urban Studies’ Book Series, Palgrave Macmillan, 2014‐present. Advisory Board, ‘Strumenti Urbanistici’ Book Series, Franco Angeli, 2012‐2014. Editorial Board, Ciudades para un Futuro más Sostenible, 2010‐present. UNIVERSITY AND DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE 
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Academic Secretary, Regional and Town Planning Department (2013‐present) Academic Secretary, PhD Program ‘Peripheries, Sustainability and Urban Vitality’, Regional and Town Planning Department (2013‐present) Academic Secretary, Master Program ‘Regional and Urban Planning’, Regional and Town Planning Department (2013‐present) Member of Academic Committee, PhD Program ‘Peripheries, Sustainability and Urban Vitality’, Regional and Town Planning Department (2009‐2013) Member of Academic Committee, Master Program ‘Regional and Urban Planning’, Regional and Town Planning Department (2009‐2013) SERVICE AS REFEREE 
Reviewer of submissions to the following journals (selection): ACME: An International E‐Journal for Critical Geographies, Antipode, Ciudad y Territorio, Ciudades, Environment & Planning D: Society and Space, Espaces et Sociétés, EURE ‐ Estudios Urbano‐Regionales, Journal of Urban Research, Political Geography, Gaceta Técnica, Revista Internacional de Sociología, Scripta Nova, Urban Research and Practice, ZArch. Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Architecture and Urbanism. RESEARCH GROUPS AND SCIENTIFIC NETWORKS 
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Researcher, Sustainable Architecture and Urbanism, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de Madrid, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 2010‐present. Advisory Board, Urban Theory Lab, Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, 2013‐present. Advisory Board, Urbanism of 20th century European Dictatorships Scientific Network, 2013‐present. Member, Association of European Schools of Planning, 2012‐present. EXPERIENCE AS PLANNING PRACTITIONER & ARCHITECT (selection) 
Comprehensive Regional and Town Planning: o Plan Especial del Parque Forestal del Sur (Madrid Region). Client: Madrid Regional Government – Environment and Regional Planning Council. Member of the Planning Office. o Plan General de Móstoles | population > 200,000 inhab. Client: Móstoles City Hall. Member of the Planning Office – Responsible for the design of interventions in the city center. REGIONAL AND TOWN PLANNING DEPARTMENT —
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Plan General de Tomelloso | population > 35,000 inhab. Client: Tomelloso City Hall. Director of the Planning Office. o Plan General de Coslada | population > 85,000 inhab. Client: Coslada City Hall. Director of the Planning Office. Master Planning and Urban Design: o Plan Parcial de Reforma Interior – Eco‐Barrio del Aeropuerto (Madrid) | 550 housing units. Client: Madrid City Hall – Housing Public Company (Madrid City). Co‐Director of the Planning Office o Plan Parcial – Sector 4 (Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid) | 1,200 housing units. Client: Torrejón de Ardoz City Hall – Housing Public Company (Madrid Region) – Private sector. Co‐Director of the Planning Office Architecture: o Extension of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Architect: Jean Nouvel. Client: Spanish Ministry of Civil Works. o
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Elected Representative, Board of Government, Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid, 2007‐2011. Member of Commission for Sustainable Architecture and Town Plannin, Colegio Oficial de Arquitectos de Madrid, 2004‐2005.