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GPR2C promotes local debate on Right to the City prior to Africities
The GPR2C – Global Platform for the Right to the City is promoting an important debate about the implementation of the Right to the City on a regional perspective in Johannesburg, South Africa, on November 28th, 2015. The Regional Meeting in Africa will be held at...
GPR2C News – September/October 2015
The Right to the City: the needed cornerstone for the Habitat III Agenda Habitat III is a crucial moment to reformulate the life in human settlements. In that context, the Right to the City is a critical tool to ensure that all inhabitants have a place where to...
Montreal Declaration includes claims of Global Platform for the Right to the City
GPR2C Staff The Montreal Declaration on Metropolitan Areas brought several advances to debate around Right to the City, especially about the New Urban Agenda building. The document was prepared during the latest Habitat III Thematic Meeting, held in Montréal...
What room for the Right to the City in Habitat III?
Rafaella Lima Alexandre Apsan Frediani Barbara Lipietz Introduction How will the Right to the City be incorporated into Habitat III? How will Habitat III remain accountable to the commitments of Habitat I and II and build new commitments towards more...
Habitat III ‘policy units’ experts announced
By Greg Scruggs (Citiscope) NEW YORK — Following two months of delay, the organizers of next year’s Habitat III summit on urbanization have made public the list of 200 individuals who will make up key thematic expert groups for the drafting of the New Urban Agenda,...
The Right to the City: the needed cornerstone for the Habitat III Agenda
Isabel Pascual, November 2015 Habitat III is a crucial moment to reformulate the life in human settlements. In that context, the Right to the City is a critical tool to ensure that all inhabitants have a place where to live with dignity, in sustainable, democratic and...
Gentrification explained in 8 docs
De NoFM-Radio.com Read the original publication here (in spanish)
Urban Spaces and the mattering of Black Lives
By Darnell L. Moore (Next Cities) It was close to midnight. A youngish, jovial-looking white woman with russet colored hair ran by me with ostensive ease. She donned earphones and dark, body-fitting jogging attire. I was walking home from the A train stop and along...
