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...
The Global Platform for the Right to the City (GPR2C) was in New York City, last July, taking advantage of the strong presence of civil society and local governments organizations from all over the world at the occasion of the High-Level Political Forum ( HLPF). The...
The Regional Housing and Habitat Forum that took place this past June in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic was an unusual gathering. It brought together strategic stakeholders related to the urban and housing agenda in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region and...
► Interviews: Joan Carling from Indigenous People Major Group: https://youtu.be/y9OLKQR7YtQ William Cobbet, Cities Alliance: https://youtu.be/72rl-nRRsQw Tania Espinosa, WIEGO: https://youtu.be/SA-qeNeF1Eg Judith Hitchman, Urgenci: https://youtu.be/TboGJXtCkI8...
The global campaign for advocating that the Right to the City has to be the cornerstone for the implementation of the 2030 Agenda and the New Urban Agenda was launched on July 11th 2018 - a strategic moment as it is the same date as the review of global progress...
