Neofascism, Housing & Urbanization

Cities After… with Miguel Robles-Duran

[S4E01] Neofascism, Housing & Urbanization

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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.

In this thought-provoking season premiere of Cities After, Prof. Robles-Durán examines the unsettling convergence of neoliberal urban policies and the rise of neofascist political movements. Over the course of this episode, he delves into how this shift has eroded democratic trust, paving the way for authoritarian populist leaders who claim to defend “the people” while reinforcing market-driven policies that marginalize working-class communities. From gentrification and eviction crackdowns to the privatization of social spaces, the episode dissects the material consequences of neofascism’s urban agenda and its devastating social impact.

Most importantly, Prof. Robles-Durán highlights emerging resistance strategies, including radical municipalism, community land trusts, and cross-border tenant coalitions, as crucial frameworks for rebuilding democratic agency and safeguarding the urban commons. Tune in to hear how cities—battlegrounds of profit and power—can become sites of collective struggle against neofascism.

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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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