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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
From April 4 to 5 the Committee organized – in co-partnership with several local organizations and the laboratory “la Ville en Commun” – the conference “Henri Lefebvre’s Right to the City”. On this occasion, researchers, former students of Henri Lefebvre, urban...
1. The Evolution of Human Rights for the Right to the City 1.1. The Concept of Urban Rights in the Popular Amendment on Urban Reform The concept of urban rights was included as a core element of the Urban Reform’s thinking which emerged during Brazil’s process...
