AUTONOMA - Laura Williams - The 'New' Frontiers
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At this moment, California is in economic, political, and developmental turmoil. Leading economic sectors are changing, the segregation between California’s coastal hubs and its middle land is undeniable, and its transport network is both clogged and deteriorating. However, California is still a productive cornucopia of resources: valuable land for development, the agriculturally fertile central valley, and an increasingly skilled work force. Embedded in these two Californias, the deteriorating and the prosperous, are low density residential units that extend in every direction but the ocean. The northern edge of Los Angeles, though, is so geologically extreme that this sprawl has not leapt across the San Gabriel Mountains. Instead, urban expansion on the edge has founded stand-in towns, staging and production areas for the Los Angeles Basin and gateway to the Central Valley. Simultaneously, this is the ground of exchange between the glamour and mythos of Los Angeles and the wholly separate agrarian societies of the Central Valley and High Desert. There are two potentials here, the first is in reinventing the way in which cities are expanded: a replicable typology that takes advantage of robust infrastructures but reimagines their connections with embedded focus points. The second is to acknowledge the history and character of northern Los Angeles as gateway to the High Desert and Central Valley, and reimagine a way in which inhabitants of these more rural societies can be connected to new economies and opportunities through existing logistics spaces. In the years since the American financial crisis there has been a rise in temporary employment, not just in the traditional sectors of the farmworker or seasonal salesman, but across industries from manufacturing to business. These workers come from a variety of backgrounds and operate in any number of sectors and locations, but are connected through their constant condition of domestic transience. In rethinking the edges of cities we must also interrogate the territories they are encroaching upon, and can perhaps begin to imagine a new system of shared domestic spaces that operates opportunistically within existing infrastructural and logistics spaces. This paper will interrogate the territories between cities, those simultaneously on the edge and in the middle, and reimagine how the mobile workforce can take advantage of infrastructural connectivity to enhance their personal autonomy.
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As aforementioned, NYC is the most populous metropolitan in the United States. According to data from the World Population Review (2021), the City of New York had a population of 8,230,290, making it the largest city in the state of New York and the United States in general. Besides that, NYC has the highest population density among all the U.S. states, with an estimated 27000 people per square mile (NYC Planning, n.d.). Due to its high population, NYC contributes to a significant part of the total U.S. population, with 1 in every 38 Americans living in New York (NYC Planning, n.d.). As mentioned earlier, the City of New York is inhabited by culturally diverse populations. According to the (U.S Census Bureau) n.d., the White population accounts for 42.7% of the total NYC population, Black or African Americans being 24.3%, American Indian and Alaska Natives 0.4%, Asian alone 14.1%, and Hispanic or Latino being 29.1%. Due to the diverse cultural heritage of New York, religion in the City is diverse, consisting of Christian, unaffiliated, and non-Christian faiths. Christians account for 59% of the total NYC population, with Catholics being 33%, evangelical protestants (9%), Mainline Protestant (8%), historically Black Protestant (6%) and Mormon, Jehovah's Witnesses, Orthodox Christian, each having a 1% representation (Pew Research Center, n.d.).Jewish faith accounts for 8%, Muslim 3%, Buddhist 1%, Hindu 3%, and Atheist and Agnostic being 4% each (Pew Research Center, n.d.). The government of NYC ensures that its citizens are provided with essential services through collaboration with the State government.
Governance
The City of New York's local government consists of three branches: the executive, legislative, and judiciary. The executive consists of the Mayor ...
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This paper presents the case of a group of non-profit associations, co-ops and researchers from Porto, Portugal, aimed at retrieving in an urban area the ancestral dynamics of communal property management – the “Baldio” (common land).
The group gathers alternative networks of production, consumption and distribution of food, social currency, artistic projects and independent platforms of communication, critical thinking and activism.
The group got together by the need for a physical space, the affinity between their activities and the shared will to experiment ways of producing the commons in common – providing alternatives to current forms of association and production that deprive the collective of the management of resources and shared future.
In the rural traditions of Galicia and Northern Portugal, “Baldio” is a communal property status applied to lands that belong neither to the formal public domain nor the private: they are based on a title in which “compartes” (counterparts) self-organize to meet their needs together.
In a city currently committed to a narrow and short-term survival mode, based on tourism and entertainment, reflecting trends in the globalized world, the group elected “Baldio” as an inheritance to seed and nourish a joint path of unrest and divergence.
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How to assure survival and vitality while remaining aside from mercantilist logic?
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AUTONOMA - Konstantinos Christodoulidis - Agroecology, Market and Autonomy
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Manuel DeLanda's discource on “markets and antimarkets” (large, competing oligopolies and self-organized meshworks of small firms), as well as other writings of political ecologists, have described the historicity of cities as agglomerations for consumers of a much broader network of organic flows (amongst other flows), and how links to urban markets have proven indispensable for rural life. Furthermore, researchers (notably Altieri) have dealt with the interrelation between agroecology and autonomy in the context of contemporary Latin America and regard agroecology as being between a merely scientific approach and a political struggle for territory. Last but not least, many ecological projects carry a message of betterment, that results from a set of practices mediated as a cultural and political participation to the urban condition, that either tries to reform and mitigate it's impact or tries to abolish it's very content and establish a direct alternative outside it's physical boundaries.
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