Half of the world’s population
lives in cities, and a growing proportion – today one billion – lives in
‘slums’ and informal settlements. Many of the urban poor engage in collective
strategies to secure their housing, earn a living, and defend their interests.
Their claims often conflict with the demands of other urban groups over access
to resources, space and power. They also challenge the definitions of urban
authorities and city planners regarding which claims are to be seen as
legitimate. Thus, the work for change is slow and fraught with difficulties,
but nevertheless has seen significant advances across the world.
This
volume focuses on the informal and formalised networks and associations of
urban poor and their significance for strengthening people’s political, social
and economic position in the city. The authors are representatives of
organisations by urban poor, of organisations working in support of their
claims, of urban governments, and scholars. Together they emphatically display
how urban poor today are claiming their right to the city.
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CONTENT:
Introduction
Heidi Moksnes
Towards an
inclusive urban planning and practice
Diana Mitlin
The Right to the
City: Struggles and proposals for the urban reform
Lorena Zárate
The Right to the
City: Progress, prospects and challenges in Malawi
Siku Nkhoma and Sarah Jameson
Homeless
People’s Federation Philippines, Inc: How we work
Ruby Papeleras
The Street
Vendor Project
Derrick Wilmot
Thematic perspectives
Waste pickers’
cooperatives in Brazil: Social inclusion while recycling
João Damasio
The visible and
the invisible
Anna Erlandson
Securing local
ownership, and the architect’s dilemma
Andrea Fitrianto
The Cuttac Ring
Road resettlement project
Anna Vindelman
Waste pickers’
urban environmental services and sustainability
João Damasio
Municipal urban
planning with the Right to the City approach: Mexico City
Juan José García Ochoa
Constested urban visions in the
global South
Introduction
Andrew Byerley
Contesting
neo-liberal urbanism in Istanbul: The case of Taksim Square and beyond
Onur Ekmekci
Offline dimensions
of favela youth online reactions to human rights violations before Rio 2016
Leonardo Custódio
From legality to
an urbanism of reception in the informal city
Júlia Carolino and Ermelindo Quaresma
Violence and urban politics
Introduction
Steffen Jensen and Jesper Bjarnesen
The badass and
the asshole: Violence and the positioned subjectivities of street youth in
Mexico City
Roy Gigengack
Criminal bands
and the future of urban Tanzania: How life has been redefined
Colman T Msoka
Urban youth
delinquency: Proliferation of criminal gangs and neighbourhood violence in
Dhaka, Bangladesh
Reazul Haque and Ebney Ayaj Rana
Outlook on Civil Society is a book series addressing
and critically discussing the mounting interest in civil society and its
potential role in promoting democracy and development. The volumes bring
together international contributors with a broad range of competences,
from researchers, policy makers, professionals within international development
cooperation to activists. Four volumes have been published in the series:
Power to the People? (Con-)Tested
Civil society in Search of Democracy(2010)
Global
Civil Society: Shifting Powers in a Shifting World(2012)
Faith
in Civil Society: Religious Actors as Drivers of Change (2013)
Claiming the City: Civil Society Mobilisation by the Urban Poor
(2014)
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