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#36: Utopian Urbanism with Hans Widmer (P.M.)


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For this week's podcast we're joined by Swiss writer Hans Widmer, author of the 1983 anarchist classic bolo'bolo, to discuss his new book Cities for a Single Planet: A Model for the Ecological Transformation of the Earth, which was recently published in English by Autonomedia.

Andreas, Eric, and Matt speak with Hans about the utopian tradition, social reproduction, and revolutionary planning. We cover many of his hot takes on family abolition and individualism, what Disneyland and Las Vegas get right, and whether we will really need bikes and green space.

LINKS:

--Cities For a Single Planet: https://autonomedia.org/product/cities-for-a-single-planet-a-model-for-the-ecological-transformation-of-the-earth-by-hans-widmer-with-p-antoniadis-m-baumgartner-and-d-spuhler/

--New Alliance: https://newalliance.earth/

--o500: https://o500.org/

--New Start Switzerland: https://www.neustartschweiz.ch/

Hans Widmer is a philologist, novelist, and urban activist, and author of bolo'bolo (pseudonym P.M.), and "The Power of Neighborhood" and the Commons (2014).

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