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“The right to the city”

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 2003
The right to the city is not merely a right of access to what already exists, but a right to change it. We need to be sure we can live with our own creations. But the right to remake ourselves by creating a qualitatively different kind of urban sociality is one of the most precious of all human rights.
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The Right to the City and the Right to Housing

2021
Housing is part of social protection and has a specific mention in the programme of the Sustainable Development Goals. The basic call of the COVID -19 lockdown was: stay home, stay safe. This assumes that one must have a home to be safe in. Millions of people do not have the luxury of a safe and secure home.
Francine Mestrum, Meena Menon
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The right to the city

Cities, 1995
Abstract This paper looks at the question of urban space in Hong Kong in terms of two simple ideas which have universal as well as local significance. The first addresses the question of surveillance and control over urban space, a strategy on the increase in cities in general, and in Hong Kong in particular.
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THE RIGHT TO THE CITY

Interventions, 2005
The apartheid city is typically touted as a negative role model for urban planners in other parts of the world, largely because of the fragmentation that apartheid social engineering imposed on the lives of urban residents. Under apartheid, the lines of fragmentation were forcibly racialized.
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The (Social) Right to the City

2022
Abstract More than half the world’s population now lives in cities. But cities are often places characterized by anomie, loneliness, and mutual indifference. This chapter uses the idea of a right to the city to critically examine the effects of urban living on different people’s abilities to meet their social needs. Dividing the relevant
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Realising the “right to the city”

International Journal of Law in the Built Environment, 2013
PurposeThis article aims to explore the concept of achieving the “right to the city” for marginalised communities. It uses human rights instruments and regeneration best practice to develop a toolkit of indicators for urban regeneration. The article contributes to the literature on realising economic, social and cultural rights encompassed in the ...
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