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Precarious Possessors and “the Right to (Rebuilding) the City”
This chapter focuses on communities, groups, neighborhoods, individuals, classes of individuals, and families who have a precarious relationship with...
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Assessing the right to water of the urban poor in Dhaka city
Dhaka, the capital metropolis of Bangladesh, is burdened with huge population and unplanned urbanization. It is facing huge challenge to provide...
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A comparative study of participatory land-use planning and the theory of the right to the city
Participatory Land use planning (PLUP) has recently become a significant element of planning in develo** countries. Nevertheless, despite the...
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A narrative from the right to the city in Iran: the theoretical–practical continuum of urban development in Bandar Abbas
Many urban planners have used Lefebvre's concept of the right to the city as a dominant approach in urban studies. In this research, we try to draw a...
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Urban Agriculture and the Right to the City: A Practitioner’s Roadmap
This essay approaches urban agriculture from the perspective of an architect and urban farmer/beekeeper practicing bottom-up, participatory design in...
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“Leave us alone”: ‘right to the city’ of street vendors along Main North 1 Road, Maseru, Lesotho
This article explores the lived daily experiences of street vendors operating along the Main North 1 Road in the CBD of Maseru, Lesotho. This...
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The Right to the City and the Housing in Brazilian Cities
This article will analyse the general conditions of housing in Brazilian cities and housing policies, with an emphasis on the current situation. The...
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A comparative study of the right to the city in Iran
In the past few decades, the concept of “right to the city” has spread from Europe to other parts of the world, but this concept is still neglected...
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Are Social Movements Achieving the Right to Adequate Housing in Lagos, Nigeria?
The right to adequate housing is central to urban struggles and has become important in contemporary urban governance and development discourse,...
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The Together New Haven Project: Focus Groups to Understand Health, Well-Being, and the Interaction of City Government among Historically Marginalized Communities
The purpose of this research is to investigate community well-being among historically marginalized communities within a shared city setting, with...
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Journalism and the Smart City
With Sidewalk Labs’ Quayside project, Toronto joined other cities where smart city discourse has circulated and projects have been developed,...
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Housing Squats, Urban Commons, Right to the City
The chapter builds upon the existing literature about neoliberal urbanisation, ‘right to the city’ and urban commons to gauge their fitness as...
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Darkness under the city lights: a qualitative study on the life of urban homelessness, evidence from Siliguri city of West Bengal, India
Urban homeless peoples are always invisible and neglected in public policy, and they are treated as non-citizens in our cities. The paper...
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Informality and the fight for rights to the city in Masvingo city, Zimbabwe
The urbanisation of poverty has seen ballooning livelihoods of the poor in contemporary cities as shown by proliferation of urban informality. These...
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The Zaragoza Urban Agenda: An Opportunity to Design the City and Its Surroundings
Zaragoza has a long experience – almost 30 years – in strategic urban planning with a future-oriented and long-term vision for the city. It is...
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Planning for the urban future: two-level spatial analysis to discover 15-Minute City potential in urban area and expansion in Tallinn, Estonia
Tallinn, Estonia's capital, has seen substantial urbanisation-related changes in recent decades due to global and geopolitical shifts following the...
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Promoting Food Justice and the Right to Adequate Food in Social Work Education
Food justice is centered on the principle that food is a basic human right. Despite a mandate to include human rights and social justice content in...
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Toward a Queering of the Right to the City: Insights from the Tensions in LGBTIQ+ Politics in Geneva, the “Capital of Peace”
Geneva (CH) is well known as international capital of peace. However, despite the many efforts of public policies oriented towards LGBTIQ+ rights...
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Criminal incidences in relation to built environment in Arba Minch City, Southern Ethiopian
The global impact of urbanization has reached half the world’s population by influencing the physical structure and security of the cities. Castelli...
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Decoloniality as the Only Pathway to the Right to Development in Latin America
This article seeks to discuss the severe economic and social impacts caused in the region by the development model in place as well as proposals for...