By David Adler (Jacobinmag.com) “The right to the city is like a cry and a demand,”Henri Lefebvre wrote in 1967. “A transformed and renewed right to urban life.” This is a cry and demand today heard worldwide. From a slogan among Situationists in 1968 to the central...
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GPR2C calls for the New Urban Agenda in the World Habitat Day
The Professor Michael Cohen, from New School, will present the Declaration of the Global Platform for the Right to the City in New York In celebration of WHD (World Habitat Day), on this October 5th, the GPR2C (Global Platform for the Right to the City) is joining...
GPR2C in the World Habitat Day Celebration in NYC
UN Headquarters - ECOSOC Chamber, New York City 10-05-2015 / 10-05-2015 The Professor Michael Cohen from New School will present the Declaration of the Global Platform for the Right to the City New York Celebration Monday, October 5, 2015 09:30am - 6:00pm UN...
At U.N., traditional development concerns overshadow sustainable urbanization
By Greg Scruggs (Citiscope) UNITED NATIONS – World leaders committed this weekend to an ambitious new agenda that will guide the next 15 years of global development priorities. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development certifies 17 Sustainable Development Goals...
Partners on Twitter: Communitas Panel on SDGs and Habitat 3
GPR2C Team Check the pictures had taken by participants of Communitas Panel on SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) and Habitat 3 at Ford Foundation in New York City, USA. The event of Urban Thinker Community occured on 28th September 2015. All material was selected...
GPR2C participates of the Sustainable Development Summit meeting in NYC
The GPR2C – Global Platform for the Right to the City is integrating the discussion on the post-2015 Agenda within the Sustainable Development Summit in New York City, from 25th to 28th September. The meeting occurs in parallel to UN General Assembly. Represented by...
Habitat International Coalition: Llamado a la conformación de Comités Populares rumbo a Hábitat III
México, septiembre de 2015* Nosotros y nosotras, integrantes de comunidades originarias, pueblos, barrios y ciudades, participantes de movimientos populares, asociaciones civiles, instituciones académicas y redes internacionales somos conscientes del grito de nuestra...
Digital vs. analogue at Habitat III meeting on civic engagement
By Greg Scruggs (Citiscope) What is the best way for residents to engage with their city hall, in old-fashioned meetings or via new-fangled technology? In the Israeli city that considers itself the capital of a “start-up nation”, digital tools are...
Shouldn’t the New Urban Agenda be a binding agreement?
By Pablo Aguilar González (Citiscope) A key premise behind next year’s Habitat III conference on urbanization is that the future of humanity will be determined in cities. Yet if that is the case, with the legal framework that we have today, the battle is lost before...
Declaration of World Human Rights Cities Forum 2015
The World Human Rights Cities Forum 2015 - Towards a Global Alliance of Human Rights Cities for All II, held from 15 -18 May in Gwangju, Republic of Korea, made a declaration about the importance of human rights policy development based on local characteristics. Also,...
