Maroš Krivý, Professor and Head of the Urban Studies MSc programme, is an urbanist and historian with interests in architecture, urbanism and the environment in the postwar and post-Cold War periods. His research examines the interplay between design, power and knowledge in areas ranging from mass housing to urban nature and cybernetic urbanism.
He has published in many journals, including International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Planning Theory, Antipode, Environment and Planning D, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Architectural Histories, Perspecta, Thresholds and Avery Review, and in collections such as Urbanizing Suburbia (jovis, 2023), Neoliberalism on the Ground (University of Pittsburgh, 2020), The Botanical City (jovis, 2020) and Second World Postmodernisms (Bloomsbury, 2019).
Krivý’s current project, with the working title Urbanism at the End of History, examines how urban experts responded to global capitalism with naturalistic explanations, and forgot about social conflict and experienced injustice along the way. Research on this project has been supported through Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship.