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50 years right to the city / R2C Day

Impacts of the World Day for the #RightToTheCity digital campaign

Impacts of the World Day for the #RightToTheCity digital campaign

The campaign for World Day for the Right to the City was a great success, many thanks to all of you who made it possible! This day was joined by different campaigns with the aim of giving visibility to the struggles, initiatives and materials around the right to the...

Marseille and the Right to the City

Marseille and the Right to the City

A City Center for All The aim of the exchange sessions organised on 2 and 7 June was to apprehend Marseille and its recent transformations through the writings of Henri Lefebvre and a powerful analysis of the Right to the City. The association Un Centre Ville Pour...

The philosopher who anticipated May ’68

The philosopher who anticipated May ’68

Henri Lefebvre, despite having made a decisive contribution to how we understand cities today, is an intellectual to whom little justice has been done. Almost three decades ago, on 29 June 1991, the philosopher and sociologist Henri Lefebvre died in the French town of...

The Right to the City to Debate in Xalapa, Veracruz

The Right to the City to Debate in Xalapa, Veracruz

Luis Fernando Granados (organizer) and Hipólito Rodríguez (mayor of Xalapa) at the closing of the event On August 28, 2018, in the city of Xalapa, Mexico, the colloquium entitled The Right to the City: Half a Century of a Revolutionary Idea was held. The initiative...

Lille, Nanterre, Grenoble: The Right to the City Here and Now!

Lille, Nanterre, Grenoble: The Right to the City Here and Now!

Events Organized as part of the 50th Anniversary of the Right to the City Lille: To Us the City! The Atelier Populaire d'Urbanisme of Fives, a popular neighbourhood of Lille (France), is an association that promotes the Right to Housing and the Right to the City. Each...

Celebrating the Right to Urban Life

Celebrating the Right to Urban Life

On World Day for the Right to the City, we want to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Henri Lefebvre's inspirational work "The Right to the City" with a display of initiatives to celebrate this book from different perspectives and workspaces.  In this edition of the...

Right to the City Conference in Barcelona

Right to the City Conference in Barcelona

This cycle of debates provides the occasion for an open debate among people from different parts of the world that are involved with the struggle for defending the right to affordable and adequate housing. On the occasion of the 50th year anniversary of the...