Urban Claims And The Right To The City

Author : Julian Walker ,Marcos Bau Carvalho,Ilinca Diaconescu
Publisher : UCL Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781787356382

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Urban Claims and the Right to the City by Julian Walker ,Marcos Bau Carvalho,Ilinca Diaconescu Pdf

Urban Claims and the Right to the City explores how contested processes of urban development, and the rights of city dwellers, are understood and interpreted from the perspective of women and men working, in different ways, at the grassroots in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, and London, UK. In doing so, it represents the grounded voices of authors whose work and lives mean that they engage, on a daily basis, with issues related to housing and spatial rights, and identity struggles around race, gender, disability, sexuality, citizenship and class. Reivindicações Urbanas e o Direito à Cidade investiga como os processos de desenvolvimento urbano em disputa e os direitos de moradores das cidades são compreendidos e interpretados por mulheres e homens que trabalham, de maneiras diferentes, nas bases populares de Salvador da Bahia, no Brasil, e de Londres, no Reino Unido. Ao fazê-lo, o livro representa vozes situadas de autores cujos trabalhos e vidas estão cotidianamente engajados em questões relacionadas aos direitos à moradia e ao espaço, e em lutas pautadas por identidades de raça, gênero, deficiência, sexualidade, cidadania e classe social.

Author : Julian Walker,Marcos Bau Carvalho,Ilinca Diaconescu
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : City planning
ISBN : 1787355675

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Urban Claims and the Right to the City by Julian Walker,Marcos Bau Carvalho,Ilinca Diaconescu Pdf

Author : Julian Walker,Marcos Bau Carvalho,Ilinca Diaconescu
Publisher : Saint Philip Street Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020-10-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1013295471

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Urban Claims and the Right to the City by Julian Walker,Marcos Bau Carvalho,Ilinca Diaconescu Pdf

Urban Claims and the Right to the City explores how contested processes of urban development, and the rights of city dwellers, are understood and interpreted from the perspective of women and men working, in different ways, at the grassroots in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, and London, UK. In doing so, it represents the grounded voices of authors whose work and lives mean that they engage, on a daily basis, with issues related to housing and spatial rights, and identity struggles around race, gender, disability, sexuality, citizenship and class. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.

Author : David Harvey
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781844678822

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Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution by David Harvey Pdf

Manifesto on the urban commons from the acclaimed theorist.

Author : Neil Brenner,Peter Marcuse,Margit Mayer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-25
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781136625046

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Cities for People, Not for Profit by Neil Brenner,Peter Marcuse,Margit Mayer Pdf

The worldwide financial crisis has sent shock-waves of accelerated economic restructuring, regulatory reorganization and sociopolitical conflict through cities around the world. It has also given new impetus to the struggles of urban social movements emphasizing the injustice, destructiveness and unsustainability of capitalist forms of urbanization. This book contributes analyses intended to be useful for efforts to roll back contemporary profit-based forms of urbanization, and to promote alternative, radically democratic and sustainable forms of urbanism. The contributors provide cutting-edge analyses of contemporary urban restructuring, including the issues of neoliberalization, gentrification, colonization, "creative" cities, architecture and political power, sub-prime mortgage foreclosures and the ongoing struggles of "right to the city" movements. At the same time, the book explores the diverse interpretive frameworks – critical and otherwise – that are currently being used in academic discourse, in political struggles, and in everyday life to decipher contemporary urban transformations and contestations. The slogan, "cities for people, not for profit," sets into stark relief what the contributors view as a central political question involved in efforts, at once theoretical and practical, to address the global urban crises of our time. Drawing upon European and North American scholarship in sociology, politics, geography, urban planning and urban design, the book provides useful insights and perspectives for citizens, activists and intellectuals interested in exploring alternatives to contemporary forms of capitalist urbanization.

Author : Christina M. Jimenez
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822986591

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Making an Urban Public by Christina M. Jimenez Pdf

Winner, 2019 CHOICE Awards Outstanding Academic Title Written as a social history of urbanization and popular politics, this book reinserts “the public” and “the city” into current debates about citizenship, urban development, state regulation, and modernity in the turn of the century Mexico. Rooted in thousands of pages of written correspondence between city residents and local authorities, mostly with the city council of Morelia, the rhetoric and arguments of resident and city council dialogues often highlighted a person’s or group’s contributions to the public good, effectively positioning petitioners as deserving and contributing members of the urban public. Making an Urban Publictells the story of how Morelia’s residents—particular those from popular groups and poor circumstances—claimed (and often gained) Making basic rights to the city, including the right to both participate in and benefit from the city’s public spaces; its consumer and popular cultures; its modernized infrastructure and services; its rhetorical promises around good government and effective policing; its dense networks of community; and its countless opportunities for negotiating to forward one’s agenda, and its urban promise for a better life.

Author : Tony Roshan Samara,Shenjing He,Guo Chen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780415635646

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Locating Right to the City in the Global South by Tony Roshan Samara,Shenjing He,Guo Chen Pdf

Drawing from scholars with extensive fieldwork experience, this volume covers sixteen cities in fourteen countries across a belt stretching from Latin America, to Africa and the Middle East, and into Asia. Central to what binds these cities are deeply rooted, complex, and dynamic processes of social and spatial division that are being actively reproduced. These cities are not so much fracturing as they are being divided by governance practices informed by local histories and political contestation, and refracted through or infused by market based approaches to urban development. Through a close examination of these practices and resistance to them, this volume provides perspectives on neoliberalism and right to the city that advance our understanding of urbanism in the Global South.

Author : Barbara Oomen,Martha F. Davis,Michele Grigolo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781107147010

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Global Urban Justice by Barbara Oomen,Martha F. Davis,Michele Grigolo Pdf

Provides theoretical and practical insights into how the new phenomenon of human rights cities contributes to global urban justice.

Author : Christopher Silver,Robert Freestone,Christophe Demaziere
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317240099

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Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning 6 by Christopher Silver,Robert Freestone,Christophe Demaziere Pdf

The Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning series offers a selection of some of the best scholarship in urban and regional planning from around the world. The internationally recognized authors of these award-winning papers take up a range of salient issues from the theory and practice of planning. This 6th volume incorporates essays that explore the salient issue commonly referred to as "The Right to the City." This theme speaks to a growing new movement within planning theory and practice with multiple aims and strategies but with the common objective of advancing a more just and equitable world. The right to the city functions as a manifesto advancing academic explorations of the opportunities for, and barriers to, expanding human and environmental justice. At the same time, it extends beyond academic inquiry to engage directly with the policy, legal and political dimensions of human rights. The right to the city has been invoked by global bodies such as United Nations-Habitat and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization to bolster not only their agendas around fundamental human rights but advance urban policies promoting inclusion, sustainability, and resilience. Dialogues 6 offers engaging explorations into the academic expeditions by the global planning community that have helped to energize this movement. The papers assembled here through processes of peer review represent an invaluable collection to untangle the complexities of this dynamic new approach to urban and regional planning. The Dialogues in Urban and Regional Planning (DURP) series is published in association with the Global Planning Education Association Network (GPEAN) and its member national and transnational planning schools associations.

Author : Sharon M. Meagher,Samantha Noll,Joseph S. Biehl
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317400639

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The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the City by Sharon M. Meagher,Samantha Noll,Joseph S. Biehl Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the City is an outstanding reference source to this exciting subject and the first collection of its kind. Comprising 40 chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into clear sections addressing the following central topics: • Historical Philosophical Engagements with Cities • Modern and Contemporary Philosophical Theories of the City • Urban Aesthetics • Urban Politics • Citizenship • Urban Environments and the Creation/Destruction of Place. The concluding section, Urban Engagements, contains interviews with philosophers discussing their engagement with students and the wider public on issues and initiatives including experiential learning, civic and community engagement, disability rights and access, environmental degradation, professional diversity, social justice, and globalization. Essential reading for students and researchers in environmental philosophy, aesthetics, and political philosophy, The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of the City is also a useful resource for those in related fields, such as geography, urban studies, sociology, and political science.

Author : Mary Lawhon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781000767957

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Making Urban Theory by Mary Lawhon Pdf

This book facilitates more careful engagement with the production, politics and geography of knowledge as scholars create space for the inclusion of southern cities in urban theory. Making Urban Theory addresses debates of the past fifty years regarding whether and why scholars should conceptualize southern cities as different and argues for the continued importance of unlearning existing theory. With examples from the urban question to environmental justice, urban infrastructure to basic income, this volume highlights the limitations of existing explanations as well as how thinking from the south entails more than collecting data in new places. Throughout the book, instances of juxtapositions, unease, unlearning and learning anew emphasize how theory-making from southern cases can open avenues to more creative possibilities. The book pulls theories apart, examining distinct components to better understand the universality and provinciality of empirical phenomena, causality and norms, including questions of what a city is and ought to be. This book delivers a clearer articulation of ongoing debates and future possibilities for southern urban scholarship, and it will thus be relevant for both scholars and students of Urban Studies, Urban Theory, Urban Geography, Research Methods in Geography, Postcolonial/Southern Cities and Global Cities at graduate and post-graduate levels.

Author : Derya Özkan,Güldem Baykal Büyüksaraç
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780429664182

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Commoning the City by Derya Özkan,Güldem Baykal Büyüksaraç Pdf

This collection seeks to expand the limits of current debates about urban commoning practices that imply a radical will to establish collaborative and solidarity networks based on anti-capitalist principles of economics, ecology and ethics. The chapters in this volume draw on case studies in a diversity of urban contexts, ranging from Detroit, USA to Kyrenia, Cyprus – on urban gardening and land stewardship, collaborative housing experiments, alternative food networks, claims to urban leisure space, migrants’ appropriation of urban space and workers’ cooperatives/collectives. The analysis pursued by the eleven chapters opens new fields of research in front of us: the entanglements of racial capitalism with enclosures and of black geographies with the commons, the critical history of settler colonialism and indigenous commons, law as a force of enclosure and as a strategy of commoning, housing commons from the urban scale perspective, solidarity economies as labour commons, territoriality in the urban commons, the non-territoriality of mobile commons, the new materialist and post-humanist critique of the commons debate and feminist ethics of care.

Author : Lorenzo Vidal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1551647699

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Advancing Urban Rights by Lorenzo Vidal Pdf

How can the set of rights that underpin the notion of the "right to the city" be advanced? In seeking answers to this question over several decades, social mobilizations have been assembled and new political and legal frameworks promoted. New interpretations and political articulations of the right to the city, especially those that have emerged since the end of the 2000s, encourage us to view it through the lens of identity politics. They propose that attention should be given to the diversity of the social groups that live in urban environments, whose voice and agency must be recognized in the construction of the city in the interests of equality and social justice. ​ Addressing these issues not only involves recognizing and valuing the subjects that have historically been marginalized in the construction of urban space, both physical and symbolic. It also means bearing in mind that the city materializes and is experienced in a different way by the different groups that inhabit it through their practices, uses of it and, in short, how their daily life takes shape. Advancing Urban Rights will help both concerned citizens and policy makers identify and analyze redistribution and recognition policies, institutional change, and social production of the city in an increasingly urban world.

Author : David Harvey
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2012-04-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781844679041

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Rebel Cities by David Harvey Pdf

"David Harvey...has inspired a generation of radical intellectuals." —Naomi Klein A "forensic and ferocious" manifesto on the city as a center for anti-capitalist resistance from an acclaimed theorist (The Guardian) Long before the Occupy movement, modern cities had already become the central sites of revolutionary politics, where the deeper currents of social and political change rise to the surface. Consequently, cities have been the subject of much utopian thinking. But at the same time they are also the centers of capital accumulation and the frontline for struggles over who controls access to urban resources and who dictates the quality and organization of daily life. Is it the financiers and developers, or the people? Rebel Cities places the city at the heart of both capital and class struggles, looking at locations ranging from Johannesburg to Mumbai, and from New York City to São Paulo. Drawing on the Paris Commune as well as Occupy Wall Street and the London Riots, Harvey asks how cities might be reorganized in more socially just and ecologically sane ways—and how they can become the focus for anti-capitalist resistance.

Author : Bryan S. Turner,Hannah Wolf,Gregor Fitzi,Jürgen Mackert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429557378

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Urban Change and Citizenship in Times of Crisis by Bryan S. Turner,Hannah Wolf,Gregor Fitzi,Jürgen Mackert Pdf

At times of triumphant neo-liberalism cities increasingly become objects of financial speculation. Formally, social and political rights might not be abolished, yet factually they have become inaccessible for large parts of the population. The contributions gathered in this volume shed light on the clash between the perspectives of restructuring and reordering urban environments in the interest of investors and the manifold and innovative agencies of resistance that claim and stand up for the rights of urban citizenship. Renewed waves of urban transformation employ state coercion to foster the expulsion of poor and marginalised inhabitants from those urban spaces that attract interest from speculators. The intervention of state agencies triggers the work of hegemonic culture for reframing the housing issue and implementing moral and political legitimation, as well as legislation that restricts urban citizenship rights. The case studies of the volume comparatively show the different and sometimes contradictory patterns of these conflicts in Berlin, Sydney, Belfast, Jerusalem, Amsterdam, and İstanbul as well as in metropoles of Latin America and China. Innovative resistance agencies emerge that paint possible paths for the re-establishment of the right to the city as the core of urban citizenship.