📢 Off the press the book
📖 In the Mirror of Urban Landscapes: Sharing Experiences and Grounding
ISBN: 9789464981834
📚💬by Juan Luis de las Rivas, in conversation with Ana Ruiz-Varona and Federico Camerin
as part of the ‘Conversations in Planning Theory and Practice’ collaborative e-publication project between AESOP - Association of European Schools of Planning & AESOP Young Academics Network
Read it at https://eprints.aesop-planning.eu/items/58a1baa3-dce0-4276-8708-90a089888723
🎓 The booklet project aims to document conversations between two generations of scholars about theories, ideas, concepts and practices that matter in planning in an inviting and explanatory way that allows the readers to engage with the discussion easily!!
💡 Editor-in-Chief Mario Paris
💬Main contents:
1️⃣ Building an academic and professional identity
2️⃣ Places and landscapes, an open dialectic
3️⃣ Planning practice and urban culture in a peripheral region
4️⃣ A quiet look at current urban planning
But not only these contents! This has been a more-than-2-year journey in strict collaboration with the authors, made up by:
1️⃣ Dialogues tackling different aspects of urban and regional planning at the crossroad with architecture,
2️⃣ Interviews with key academics & practitioners (Ángel Marinero Peral, Juan Miro, Alfonso Vegara, Roberto Kawano, Miguel Fernández Maroto, Agustín Hernández Aja & María Castrillo).
... and more!
For instance, here various videos collecting our reflections (please, mark the English subtitle option):
1️⃣Making of J.L. de las Rivas, in conversation with A. Ruiz Varona and F. Camerin,
2️⃣ Reasons and the opportunity of the booklet
4️⃣ The practice as a learning process
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This is the 12th booklet of the series! It refers to the work and profile of Prof. de las Rivas as a witness to a long trajectory (INSTITUTO UNIVERSITARIO DE URBANÍSTICA de la Universidad de Valladolid) in which our protagonist moves between research, practice and teaching—mixing all of them in one continuous interaction. This privileged position allows the authors to observe how an academic with a refined and consolidated background in planning and architecture culture defines his perspective throughout the years based on his voracious readings, thereby situating himself in the national and international academic discourse but never forgetting his roots and the conditions in which he has worked and passed for.
We hope you enjoy the reading and we are ready for confronting with anyone who is interested in approaching the themes we dealt with!
Federico Camerin
