Between Rights in the City and the Right to the City: Heritage, Character and Public Participation in Urban Planning

This article contributes to an emerging field of ‘urban communication’ research and its intersections with civic culture and digital citizenship. It does so by presenting a case study of how an activist group in North London’s Tottenham region co-designed bespoke digital media platforms, akin to civic media, to advocate an approach to urban planning that also recognizes migrants’ rights. Conducted as a part of a broader participatory action research project, the study outlined here offers an analysis of the online and offline communicative routes taken, the urban rights enacted and the visions expressed during an eight-week consultation period. Drawing on both quantitative and qualitative metrics from the official and alternative digital platforms inviting consultation around the community-led planning application, the article offers insights about the co-construction of space, and the effect that the particular site had in unearthing wider enactments of ‘the right to the city’ and affective belonging, alongside struggles against threats of displacement. By offering these insights, the study contributes to a better understanding of the digital mediation of belonging through space/place and what this means for urban citizenship. Looking beyond processes of urban planning, this understanding seeks to contribute to wider debates of urban citizenship, often expressed at the intersection of urban rights, digital citizenship and virtual reality.

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High-capacity transport, floor area ratio and its relationship with urbanization of metropolitan areas

Libro de Actas CIT2016. XII Congreso de Ingeniería del Transporte ◽

10.4995/cit2016.2016.3762 ◽

2016 ◽

Author(s):

Bruno Luis De Carvalho da Costa ◽

Fabiene Cristina De Carvalho da Costa

Keyword(s):

Urban Planning ◽

Metropolitan Areas ◽

High Capacity ◽

Area Ratio ◽

Right To The City ◽

Floor Area ◽

Floor Area Ratio ◽

The Right ◽

The Relationship ◽

The City

Most of the world’s population lives in urban areas (54%). Near 42% of the global urban population live in cities with more than 1 million inhabitants, where problems associated with urban sprawl such as informal settlement, social-economic changes, environmental degradation and deficient high-capacity transport (HCT) systems are common. Meanwhile, urbanization and its associated transportation infrastructure define the relationship between city and countryside, between the city’s inner core and the periphery, between the citizen and his right to move. This article discusses and presents an overview about the relationship between the planning and extension of HCT systems and urban planning, (in the figure of the floor-area ratio - FAR- prescribed in regulations). The methodological approach consists of drawing a conceptual framework and studying 33 different cities of metropolitan areas on five continents. It’s noticed that areas in cities with a high construction potential but with an insufficient HCT negatively influence in urban mobility and hence the right to the city. We consider right to the city the various social and fundamental rights that, among others, includes the right to public transportation. Therefore there’s a real need of an integrated approach of community participation, FAR distribution, urban planning and transportation planning and so that urbanization, inevitable these days, takes place in a fair and harmonious way.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.4995/CIT2016.2016.3762

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PARTICIPATION OF MALIOBORO’S PARKING ATTENDANTS RELOCATION IN RIGHT TO THE CITY PERSPECTIVE

Jurnal Pengembangan Kota ◽

10.14710/jpk.8.1.33-47 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 33-47

Author(s):

Pinurba Parama Pratiyudha

Keyword(s):

Public Participation ◽

Rapid Change ◽

Field Research ◽

Urban Life ◽

Right To The City ◽

Essential Point ◽

Development Goals ◽

The Government ◽

The Right ◽

The City

Right to the city become one of essential point in New Urban Agenda discussion, as the adoption of Sustainable Development Goals which includes point 11 on Sustainable Cities and Human Settlements. Right to the city is a concept which encloses political power, land ownership, and social justice within globalized cities which run into rapid change. Lefebvre describes the right to the city as people cry and demand a transformed and renewed urban life. Participation is seen as a basic right in the concept of the right to the city. This article drawing on a study case of relocation of Malioboro’s parking attendants. The relocation itself was one of the policies to revitalize tourism area along Malioboro street. In the process, there are some resistances from Malioboro’s parking attendants emerge as their concern on their sustainability after the relocation into the new place. Based on the field research, this article concludes that the process of participation that occurs does not meet up with parking attendants aspiration and the process is ruined by the government. Public participation is ineffective at the process and ruined as the government intervention in Malioboro parking attendants organization. The ineffectiveness of public participation is due to the logic of technocratic participation and the government's informal approach to some parking attendants.

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City Living

10.1093/oso/9780190855369.001.0001 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Quill R Kukla

Keyword(s):

Urban Planning ◽

Urban Spaces ◽

Right To The City ◽

Philosophical Investigation ◽

City Life ◽

The Right ◽

The Impact ◽

The City ◽

Embodied Agency

This book is about urban spaces, urban dwellers, and how these spaces and people make, shape, and change one another. It is the first systematic philosophical investigation of the nature of city life and city dwellers. It draws on empirical and ethnographic work in geography, anthropology, urban planning, and several other disciplines in order to explore the impact that cities have on their dwellers and that dwellers have on their cities. It begins with a philosophical exploration of spatially embodied agency and of the specific forms of agency and spatiality that are distinctive of city living. It explores how gentrification is enacted and experienced at the level of embodied agency, arguing that gentrifying spaces are contested territories that shape and are shaped by their dwellers. The book then moves to an exploration of repurposed cities, which are cities materially designed to support one sociopolitical order but in which that order collapsed, leaving new dwellers to use the space in new ways. Through a detailed original ethnography of the repurposed cities of Berlin and Johannesburg, the book makes the case that in repurposed cities, we can see vividly how material spaces shape and constrain the agency and experience of dwellers, while dwellers creatively shape the spaces they inhabit in accordance with their needs. The book ends with a reconsideration of the right to the city, asking what would be involved in creating a city that enabled the agency and flourishing of all its diverse inhabitants.

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The Trap of Urban Planning Development in Jerusalem

Contemporary Arab Affairs ◽

10.1525/caa.2019.122005 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 12 (2) ◽

pp. 105-138

Author(s):

Rasim Khamaisi

Keyword(s):

Urban Planning ◽

Control Systems ◽

Right To The City ◽

Complex Matrix ◽

Planning Systems ◽

Urban Planning And Development ◽

Planning Development ◽

The Right ◽

The City ◽

East Jerusalem

The question of Palestinians’ right for urban planning and development in East Jerusalem is one of many challenges Arab Jerusalemites face over the right to the city. While Palestinians search for the reasons for the impaired urban reality of East Jerusalem, some of the answers lie in the planning systems itself and its allowances. This brief paper describes, analyzes, and critiques urban planning policies that constitute a trap and an indictment mechanism impeding the issuance of a building permit and land titles. The planning trap is part of a sophisticated complex matrix of control systems, with hard and soft, visible and invisible components that are practiced by the Israeli authorities in an effort to bring about the geopolitical, demographic policies, and urban changes desired by the state in Jerusalem.

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The Right to the City and the Urban Environment: Re-Imagining Section 24 of the 1996 Constitution

Southern African Public Law ◽

10.25159/2522-6800/3624 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 29 (1) ◽

pp. 175-193

Author(s):

Marius Pieterse

Keyword(s):

Urban Environment ◽

Right To The City ◽

The Right ◽

The City

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A utopia do direito à cidade: Possibilidades de superação da dicotomia favela-bairro no Rio de Janeiro

GEOgraphia ◽

10.22409/geographia2005.714.a13491 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 7 (14) ◽

Author(s):

Márcio Piñon de Oliveira

Keyword(s):

Rio De Janeiro ◽

The Other ◽

Right To The City ◽

Other Hand ◽

The Right ◽

The City

A utopia do direito à cidade, no caso específico do Rio de Janeiro, começa, obrigatoriamente, pela superação da visão dicotômica favela-cidade. Para isso, é preciso que os moradores da favela possam sentir-se tão cidadãos quanto os que têm moradias fora das favelas. A utopia do direito à cidade tem de levar a favela a própria utopia da cidade. Uma cidade que não se fragmente em oposições asfalto-favela, norte-sul, praia-subúrbio e onde todos tenham direito ao(s) seu(s) centro(s). Oposições que expressam muito mais do que diferenças de localização e que se apresentam recheadas de segregação, estereótipos e ideologias. Por outro lado, o direito a cidade, como possibilidade histórica, não pode ser pensado exclusivamente a partir da favela. Mas as populações que aí habitam guardam uma contribuição inestimável para a construção prática desse direito. Isso porque, das experiências vividas, emergem aprendizados e frutificam esperanças e soluções. Para que a favela seja pólo de um desejo que impulsione a busca do direito a cidade, é necessário que ela se pense como parte da história da própria cidade e sua transformação em metrópole.Abstract The right to the city's utopy specifically in Rio de Janeiro, begins by surpassing the dichotomy approach between favela and the city. For this purpose, it is necessary, for the favela dwellers, the feeling of citizens as well as those with home outside the favelas. The right to the city's utopy must bring to the favela the utopy to the city in itself- a non-fragmented city in terms of oppositions like "asphalt"-favela, north-south, beach-suburb and where everybody has right to their center(s). These oppositions express much more the differences of location and present themselves full of segregation, stereotypes and ideologies. On the other hand, the right to the city, as historical possibility, can not be thought just from the favela. People that live there have a contribution for a practical construction of this right.

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