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...
GPR2C Activities on General Assembly Partners Meeting and Habitat 3 Agenda
Do We Have a Right to the City?
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...
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...
