Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago is Associate Professor of Urban Planning at the School of Architecture (ETSAM), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. His research draws on various critical theoretical and social historical traditions to examine the intersection of urbanization, capitalist spatial politics, and popular geographies. He is the author of Against the Commons: A Radical History of Urban Planning (University of Minnesota Press, 2022) and editor of Neil Brenner: Critical Urban Theory and the Politics of Scale (Icaria, 2017). His work has been published in Antipode, The Architectural Review, Society and Space, Social and Cultural Geography, and Planning Perspectives, among other journals. Before becoming a full-time academic, he practiced as an urban planner for over a decade.

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