Peter Schultz Jørgensen

HvalsøDenmark
Written By Simon Nielsen

Urbanist & Author

“Building the anti-capitalist power of urban social movements through organizing, development of competencies, accumulation of platforms and dialectical utopianism. Development of a new framework for understanding urbanity.”

 

Location: Hvalsø, Denmark
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Behind The Scenes

Short description:

I have worked as a city planner for a number of years. Today I spend my time writing socially critical books and articles on urbanity with a focus on urban commons, land as a common good, and on communities' embedding in nature. Just started on a book about the Bronx. After that another book about urban and ecourban utopias.

The last few books have been about Copenhagen, about the city's development and the struggle that is taking place today, about the direction in the development of the city and the region.

View from your window:

Linden trees, an ash tree, a birch, sky with clouds over my garage (filled with bikes), wall of red bricks.

What's your contribution?

Thoughts, analysis, and postulates.

What's the most important?

Liberation from capitalist madness.

Meet Peter Schultz Jørgensen here:

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Owning The City: An Interview With Peter Schultz Jørgensen
Owning The City: An Interview With Peter Schultz Jørgensen

Who owns the city? Which underlying systems determine the development of cities? And are they the right ones? Do they create the best possible places and communities?

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On The Edge - What If?
On The Edge - What If?

“Our sanctuaries have been bought up and lost. Cities sell their land - e.g., via the neoliberal grip that is now being marketed as ‘the Copenhagen model’. This divestment is a drastic curtailment of the democratic territorial power and of the potential dynamics that naturally follow, if the ground of the city is a common good.” Peter Schultz Jørgensen, urbanist and author, is writing on the edge of the abyss.

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