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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"The right to the city"”.
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The right to the city and environmental justice in urban South Africa
… and failing service delivery. Urban areas are further confronted with challenges such as increasing numbers of people, pressure on built environment infrastructure, pollution, and natural resources such as water that are under strain. These challenges affect how well cities and other urban areas …
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Contesting Erasure: The Museu Da Maré and the Right to the City in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
<p>Rapid growth in cities of the Global South has precipitated urban inequalities, particularly the urban and social exclusion of low-income city residents. Right to the city scholars have investigated claims to urban space but have not fully considered the role of museums and the politics of …
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Upgrading from below : a collective approach to the Right to the City in the Federal District, Mexico
In 2010, then-Mayor Marcelo Ebrard of Mexico's Distrito Federal (DF) signed the Mexico City Charter for the Right to the City. Echoing a global movement by activists, academics, citizens, and government officials, a consortium of municipal activist organizations had written the charter over a …
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Urbanism with Chinese Characteristics and the Right to the City : The Regeneration of Urban-Villages in Guangzhou, China
The aim of the thesis is to describe and evaluate the transformation of urban form in the Pearl River Delta (PRD), China, with a particular focus on the relations between social processes and spatial forms in the context of the regeneration of urban-villages in Guangzhou. Referring to in-depth …
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The right to the city in disputed sites : urban redevelopment and the street economy space nexus in Maputo, Mozambique
The study established the nexus between market-led urban redevelopment and involuntary displacement of street economy workers from public spaces. Taking Maputo, the capital city of Mozambique, as a case-study, it investigated how street economy workers are circumventing displacement from public …
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The right to the City (Centre): a spatial development framework for affordable inner-city housing in Cape Town's Foreshore
There is a spatial dislocation between jobs and people in Cape Town, which is largely caused by financial exclusion through urban land markets. The majority of low-income households - who also constitute the majority of the city's population - live on the urban periphery, where property is …
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Creando barrios. Vecindarios, cine y poesia. La concepcion del espacio urbano en Espana. 1970-1985.
… neighborhoods and in poetry and cinema during the Transition. I explore how urban spaces are not so much physical entities but lived spaces, with the potentials of reconceptualizing human practices in today's artistic creations. My point of departure studies how different grassroots …
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Urban Interventions: Architecture as a mechanism of inclusion
In the rapidly urbanizing world, it may seem normal to hear that while only 2% of the earth's surface is occupied by cities, 53% of the world's population lives in cities. What may seem alarming however is the fact that of that 53%, 33% of city dwellers today actually live in slums. To place …
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"Museu das remoções" potencia de resistencia creativa y efectiva como respuesta sociocultural a Río de Janeiro en mega eventos.
This paper will examine the construction of the Evictions Museum in Vila Autódromo, which took place amidst the rise of various civil rights movements in Rio de Janeiro. The introduction of a form of city management called 'urban entrepreneurship,' (Harvey, 1996) prompted a steady loss of civil …
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Reclaiming the commons : art and activism in the neoliberal city
How can artistic/activist practices respond to urban conditions of exclusion and inequality? Since the 1970s, urban redevelopment in the United States has been dominated by a neoliberal ideology that promotes privatization, deregulation and the withdrawal of the state from the provision of social …
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We shall not be moved : advocacy and policy in a rapidly changing Boston
The ability to access affordable, stable, and good quality housing has become an increasing concern for policymakers, community advocates, and activists in growing urban metros across the United States. In Boston, population growth and rising housing costs have spurred new development of luxury …
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Exploring commoning as a tool for social integration: Re-use of abandoned buildings and plots for the creation of commons in the Greek context
… turmoil. Refugees in Greece have been admitted to state run camps, segregated and excluded from social life and have been denied their basic human rights. In the meantime the Greek socioeconomic crisis since 2008 has led to high unemployment rates, the increase of homelessness, poverty, rising …
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Architecture for performance - exploring the relationship between architecture, dance and the city
The focus of this investigation is the relationship between architecture and dance. The main concern is the challenge of translating dance to enhance architectural design, questioning how dance can inspire and unlock a potential in architecture through scale and movement of the body at various …
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THE RIGHT TO NAVIGATE RISK IN MEXICO CITY: Possibilities for creating safer spaces for women experiencing fear of sexual harassment in their daily use of the city
This thesis explores the effects of fear of harassment on women’s mobility choices in Mexico City by analyzing it through a Right to the City framework. Women’s fear of harassment constitutes a constant state of alert to the smaller and more subtle forms which exist in a spatial continuity as a …
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Power, planning, and the right to the post-disaster city : exploring opportunities for long-term housing affordability and resilience in earthquake recovery
The San Francisco Bay Area is in the midst of a housing crisis, which has been exacerbated by the growth of high-income earners, slow housing construction, and a historic transfer of property ownership facilitated by the foreclosure crisis. This has resulted in the rapid displacement of low- and …
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Fuel poverty and transport poverty in the UK: a critical examination of their future evolution in relation to government policy
In the UK, transport poverty has evolved out of an explicit analogy with the more recognised fuel poverty. This thesis adapts a practical approach to these phenomena through the use of in-depth semi-structured expert interviews, supported by detailed research and policy review. Extensive …
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PEDAGOGY, SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION, AND SPACE: TOWARD A REVOLUTIONARY CRITICAL PEDAGOGY FOR SPACE
<p>Building on the work of Peter McLaren, Henri Lefebvre, and David Harvey, this dissertation develops a revolutionary critical pedagogy for space. I begin with a historical and theoretical survey of the roots critical pedagogy, a pedagogical orientation that is often called upon but rarely …
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The production of digital public spaces
Digital media are noticeably changing the qualities of urban public spaces, which can no longer be considered a purely physical construct. Yet, the extent to which contemporary digital media can be used to promote other forms of spatial agency remains a critical issue. Whereas the impact of …
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Coming of Age in Neoliberal New York
… neoliberal policies have left New York a divided city, with ever-rising rates of income inequality and widening social disparity. Structural transformations associated with global capitalism have led to divergent experiences for male and female youth coming of age in the 21st century. Girls are …
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The Production of Digital Public Space(s)
Digital media are noticeably changing the qualities of urban public spaces, which can no longer be considered a purely physical construct. Yet, the extent to which contemporary digital media can be used to promote other forms of spatial agency remains a critical issue. Whereas the impact of …
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