From a/topia to topia: Towards a gendered right to the city for migrant volunteers in London
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DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2017.04.007
Abstract: Abstract The paper makes use of an un-orthodox Lefebvrian formulation of the ‘right to the city’ as it adds the gender dimension which was absent from Lefebvre's work. The lens of ‘gendered right to the… read more here.
Keywords: volunteers london; right city; city; gendered right ... See more keywords
Homelessness in Pretoria: Exploring the survival challenges of the homeless and their right to the city
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DOI: 10.1080/0376835x.2017.1310024
Abstract: ABSTRACT This article documents the biographies of 60 homeless people from a range of different backgrounds in South Africa’s capital city of Pretoria. The article focuses on their right to the city and how the… read more here.
Keywords: right city; city; exploring survival; pretoria exploring ... See more keywords
Undoing the right to the city: World Cup investments and informal settlements in Fortaleza, Brazil
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DOI: 10.1080/07352166.2017.1328974
Abstract: ABSTRACT In the Global South, the notion of the right to the city has increasingly been used to challenge the effects of uneven development on vulnerable informal residents. Yet, under a neoliberal spatial regime, acknowledging… read more here.
Keywords: world cup; right city; undoing right; city ... See more keywords
(Re)making politics in a new urban Ethiopia: an empirical reading of the right to the city in Addis Ababa’s condominiums
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DOI: 10.1080/17531055.2017.1285105
Abstract: ABSTRACT This article analyses the Ethiopian transition, particularly its social and political dimension based on an urban situation. It contributes to the debate over the right to the city in a dynamic way by articulating… read more here.
Keywords: right city; city; new urban; politics new ... See more keywords
Introduction to the special issue on (De)constructing the right to the city: Luanda and Maputo
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DOI: 10.1080/19376812.2021.1999830
Abstract: Portuguese-speaking African countries, namely Angola and Mozambique, faced important political-economic and social transformations after their liberations in 1975. Given the geopolitical context of the time, these two countries went through a brief socialist period (1975/1985-90)… read more here.
Keywords: constructing right; right city; city; luanda maputo ... See more keywords
Urban Precarity and Home: There Is No “Right to the City”
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DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2017.1392284
Abstract: Employing qualitative and ethnographic data from field research in 2009 and 2017 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, this article seeks to position urban housing and the home at the center of discussions about social and spatial… read more here.
Keywords: home; right city; city; urban precarity ... See more keywords
The socialities of everyday urban walking and the ‘right to the city’
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DOI: 10.1177/0042098016649325
Abstract: This paper explores the socialities of everyday urban walking. The paper begins from the starting contention that a wide range of social and cultural theory, urban planning and transport literatures position walking as a practice… read more here.
Keywords: right city; everyday urban; paper; socialities everyday ... See more keywords
Urban Policy, Social Movements, and the Right to the City in Brazil
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DOI: 10.1177/0094582x16675572
Abstract: Brazilian urban social movements have played a key role in bringing about change in urban policy since the 1980s and in light of the widespread protests across the country in June 2013. This insurgency and… read more here.
Keywords: right city; social movements; urban policy; movements right ... See more keywords
Defining Their Right to the City: Perspectives from Lower-Income Youth
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DOI: 10.1177/1078087419892081
Abstract: In their desire to revitalize their cities, local government leaders actively promote private development without equal attention to the ways all residents—and not just those with financial means—live their daily lives. To the lower-income teenager… read more here.
Keywords: defining right; right city; lower income; city ... See more keywords
The trajectory of the right to the city in Recife, Brazil: From belonging towards inclusion
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DOI: 10.1177/14730952221081761
Abstract: In 1967, Henri Lefebvre developed the Right to the City (RTC) as ‘a cry and demand’ for ‘a transformed and renewed right to urban life’. In Brazil, the RTC was institutionalised in the City Statute… read more here.
Keywords: recife brazil; right city; rtc; inclusion ... See more keywords
El derecho a la ciudad desde la etnografía feminista: politizar emociones y resistencias en el espacio urbano
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DOI: 10.4067/s0718-83582020000200001
Abstract: With this article we aim to restore the value of the knowledge provided by feminist ethnography about gender and sexual inequalities in the urban space, as well as issuing a response that addresses these inequalities… read more here.
Keywords: right city; city; sexual inequalities; everyday life ... See more keywords