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...
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...
Civil society must ensure equitable inclusion in Habitat III
By Jane Katz Citiscope.org The road is looking a bit rockier than once thought to get to the New Urban Agenda, the outcome document for next year’s Habitat III conference on cities and the intended blueprint for a new global strategy around urbanization. Nonetheless,...
