scholarly journals Derecho a la ciudad, derechos en la ciudad /// Right to the City, Rights in the City

2015 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 567
Author(s):  
Vicente Ugalde
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Legal System ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

Este artículo examina la noción “derecho a la ciudad” en el contexto de la Ciudad de México. Para ello, el autor analiza las condiciones jurídicas actuales para el disfrute y exigibilidad de ese derecho a través de otros derechos relacionados con él, así como mediante su eventual inscripción en el régimen jurídico. En el análisis de la aprehensión jurídica y la justiciabilidad del derecho a la ciudad, el artículo presta especial atención a la condición de “ciudadanía”, y moviliza referentes empíricos relacionados con conflictos a propósito de “derechos en la ciudad”. Con este propósito presta especial interés al conflicto relacionado con la construcción de la Supervía Poniente en la Ciudad de México. Se trata de esclarecer si la noción de derecho a la ciudad es susceptible de traducirse en medios concretos para el disfrute de la urbe o si, por el contrario, es tan sólo una expresión, movilizadora pero desprovista de contenido jurídico. AbstractThis article examines the notion of “right to the city” in the context of Mexico City. To this end, the author analyzes the current legal conditions for the enjoyment and enforcement of that right through other rights related to it, and their possible inclusion in the legal system. In the analysis of legal apprehension and the justiciability of the right to the city, the article pays special attention to the status of “citizenship,” using empirical referents related to conflicts about “rights in the city”. For this purpose, special attention is paid to the conflict over the construction of the Western Superhighway in Mexico City. The paper seeks to clarify whether the concept of right to the city can be translated into concrete ways to enjoy the city, or whether, by contrast, it is merely an expression that mobilizes people yet is devoid of legal content.

Dreaming dialectically: The death and life of the Mexico City charter for the right to the city

Urban Studies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 57 (10) ◽  
pp. 2064-2079
Author(s):  
Ben Gerlofs
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Political History ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Henri Lefebvre ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

This article investigates the conceptual and political history of the right to the city in Mexico City from the late 1980s to the present, focusing especially on the Mexico City Charter for the Right to the City completed and endorsed by leading political figures in 2010. By grounding this investigation in the dialectical methods of Henri Lefebvre, the article builds on roughly 12 months of ethnographic and archival fieldwork in Mexico City to argue that all such instantiations of the right to the city are bound to commit a certain violence against the idea. What the Mexico City case also suggests, however, is that such a dialectical concept is also always radically open to revivification and reimagining, as exemplified by the return of the right to the city in Mexico City’s 2017 constitution. Analysing the right to the city and its attendant politics and history from this vantage allows two crucial and underappreciated insights to emerge from this case: that the right to the city can be and sometimes is pursued under alternative auspices, and that any apparent stasis, even political death, is best considered temporary and mutable.

scholarly journals Cryptourbanomics: A Method to Boost Urban Sustainability with Blockchain Technology

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 2438
Author(s):  
Maria-Luisa Marsal-Llacuna
Keyword(s):  
Urban Sustainability ◽  
Status Quo ◽  
Urban Environments ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Social Forces ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Societal Challenges ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Right ◽  
The City

Cryptourbanomics puts forward the idea that there are forces and capital in our society that cannot be dismissed or neglected but that the System (understood as the Establishment or Status-quo) has failed to acknowledge or been unable to address. These social forces have strong ideological, cultural, or identity components, sometimes related to an unrealized Right to the City (Lefèvre, 1968). The social capital behind those forces are often citizens who gave up—the so-called drop-outs because they lost their faith in the System and prefer living in their own world. Blockchain is the technology that empowers these unheard social forces and capital. However, blockchain will remain as an Anti-System technology until it finds a fit within the Establishment until the Status-quo acknowledges and ushers it. Cryptourbanomics is a novel method that brings into the blockchain those societal challenges that the System leaves unsolved. And because today’s societal challenges mostly take place in urban environments, the Cryptourbanomics method focuses on the overall urban sustainability and analyses them with a blockchain lens. The Cryptourbanomics method includes an array of blockchain tools to tackle legacy societal challenges yet unsolved by the System with a more decentralised, distributed, transparent and neutral approach. This paper shows how the Cryptourbanomics method can help deliver on Urban Sustainability by shifting powers, from the Establishment to Communities, and it showcases this with a use case within the Right to the City, that is the Right to Work.

scholarly journals Tenkuä: Designing Futures for Broken Cities

2020 ◽  
pp. 178-191
Author(s):  
Karla Paniagua ◽  
Paulina Cornejo
Keyword(s):  
Mexico City ◽  
Learning Experience ◽  
Education Institution ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Community Life ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City ◽  
Initial Results

This work presents the initial results from two years of Tenkuä, a participatory futures workshop created by CENTRO, a higher education institution in Mexico City specialised in creativity. This experience aims to help participants to have a better understanding of the contexts and environments where they live and to design strategies that can contribute to improving community life. The methodology of the workshop combines a foresight framework with the Right to the City approach. The preliminary results refer to the learning experience as a product of design itself and how, during the process of participatory futures, the relationship between the institution and its neighbours was transformed into an experience of participatory presents.

scholarly journals Dzielnica jako miejsca afektywne – Cwaniary Sylwii Chutnik i Królowa Salwatora Emmy Popik

2020 ◽  
pp. 51-63
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Szalewska ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Affective Experience ◽  
Urban Novels ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Right ◽  
Ideological Tensions ◽  
The City ◽  
The Way

The article analyzes two urban novels Cwaniary by Sylwia Chutnik and Królowa Salwatora by Emma Popik. Both present the vision of city as an affective place. Their strongest similarity is in the way they project emotions upon the city and the transformations of public space which they document. The author of the article proposes to concentrate on a number of questions. These include the affective experience of urban space, polis as the space of ideological tensions, relationship between the centre and periphery, postmodern understanding of locality, and finally, the status of a district as the site of settling in, which allows one to claim “the right to the city”.

The Ten-Minute Neighbourhood Is [not] a Basic Planning Unit for Happiness in Egypt

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 344 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abeer Mohamed Elshater
Keyword(s):  
Healthy Lifestyle ◽  
Walking Distance ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Planning Unit ◽  
The Status ◽  
Current Context ◽  
The Right ◽  
Comparative Content ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

This paper investigates the relationship between inhabitants’ happiness and the right to the city in the status quo of Egyptian neighborhoods. Although services are easily accessible, by ten-minute walks in a suitable ambience, happiness is not achieved. The research aims to, first, review the literature that provides a guideline for ten-minute neighborhoods. Second, this study conducts a comparative content analysis of recent online articles on the right to the city. Third, the study tests findings from Egyptian neighborhood settings. The idea of a ten-minute neighborhood is manageable. The hypothesis concerns a compliant design. It is a logical assumption that people who live within ten minutes walking distance of essential facilities in their area can minimize several problems and maximize a healthy lifestyle. The supposed issue causes the right to the city to affect the relationship between ten-minute neighborhoods and citizens’ happiness. This assumption can be established through site observation and oriented questionnaires. This paper contributes by presenting new planning units that suit the current context of the old cities in the Middle East and North Africa region, based on walking distances of ten minutes or less with reference to the right to the city. This planning unit can result in citizens’ happiness.

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

GEOgraphia ◽  
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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