Urgent actionAbahlali baseMjondolo Goes to Court to Stop the Eviction of Disabled Residents
Monday, 26 November 2018 Abahlali baseMjondolo Press Statement Tomorrow We Go to Court to Stop the Eviction of Disabled Residents Tomorrow the eNduduzweni branch of Abahlali baseMjondolo goes to Durban High Court as the eThekwini Municipality and KZN Department of...
Building cities and territories of rights
The Right to the City movement expands and strengthens. From 28 to 31 October, the International Meeting for Equal Cities (EIpCI) was held in Buenos Aires. It was part of the work of the Global Platform for the Right to the City (PGDC), together with national and...
The Right to the City in Buenos Aires and the World
The Global Platform for the Right to the City was in Buenos Aires with organizations, movements and people, academics and local governments networks committed to territorial social justice on the occasion of the International Meeting for Equal Cities (EipCI). This...
The exercise of Rights
A vision from urbanism and territorial planning The 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the 50th anniversary of the publication of Henri Lefebvre's "The Right to the City" seemed to us, for the magazine Crítica Urbana, an appropriate...
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
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
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!
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
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...
Declaration on the World Day for the Right to the City
We, social movements, civil society and local governments organizations are committed to social change through the promotion, defense and fulfillment of the Right to the City in every region of the world. On October 31st, we have agreed to celebrate the World Day for...
