Academic addresses and Distinguished lectures

1993

International Conference on "New Technologies and Society". Keynote Speaker, Università di Torino, Italy, 1993.
Symposium on "The Marginal City". Keynote Speaker, Pratt Institute, New York, United States of America, 1993.
Conference on "Siberia and the World Economy". Keynote speaker, Russian Academy of Sciences, Siberian section, Novosibirsk, Russia, 1993.

Symposium on The New Urbanism. Keynote Speaker, Princeton Universty, Princeton, United States of America, October 1992.
International Conference on Housing. Keynote Speaker, Universiteit Delft, The Hague, Netherlands, 1992.
Conference on "The Edge of the City". Keynote Speaker, Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning, New York, United States of America, 1992.
Annual Congress. Keynote Speaker, American Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Austin, Texas, United States of America, 1992.

Conferencia Hispano-Soviética sobre los procesos de transición política. Closing Lecture, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Escuela de verano, Madrid, Spain, 1991.

The World Has Changed. Can Planning Change? Opening Lecture, Annual Meeting Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning (ACSP), Austin, Texas, United States of America, 2nd November 1990.
Chair of the sessions "Information Technologies and urban-regional development" and "Environment and Society". World Congress of Sociology, Madrid, Spain, 1990.

Nuevas tecnologías, economía y sociedad. Inaugural Lecture of the academic year 1988-1989, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (published in Nuevas tecnologías, economía y sociedad. Madrid: Ediciones de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, 1988.), 1988.

Estado, cultura y sociedad: las nuevas tendencias históricas. Cultura y Sociedad; Ministerio de Cultura, Madrid, Spain, 1983.

Social Organization and Social Movements in Latin American Squatter Settlements. Paper prepared for the panel on Third World Urbanization held at the Xth International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, New Delhi, India, December 1978.

Advanced Capitalism, Collective Consumption, and Urban Contradictions: New Sources of Inequality and New Models for Change. In: Stress and contradiction in modern capitalism: public policy and the theory of the State; edited by Leon N. Lindberg ... [et al.]. Papers from an international Conference on "Patterns of Change in Advanced Industrial Society: Priorities for Social Science Research in the 1970's and 1980's", held at Monterosso-al-Mare, Genova, Italy, November 1973.