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.

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 Romani People and the ‘Right to the City’: Gentrification in Fevzipasa, Canakkale, Turkey

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 49-64
Author(s):  
Recep Volkan Öner ◽  
A. Aslı Şimşek
Keyword(s):  
Protected Area ◽  
Cultural Value ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
City Centre ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

Canakkale city centre has been home for many different ethnicities from the past to our present day. In time, the city centre was also defined as a protected area due to its historical and cultural value. However, major infrastructure, urban renewal, and transformation projects have emerged in the agendas of both public authorities and the private sector. Similar to the rest of the world, in Turkey, Romani people are amongst the first groups to face the discriminating and excluding effects of such projects. This study aims to explore the relationship between gentrification and the violation of Romani people’s ‘right to the city’ with a focus on the Romani neighbourhood of Fevzipasa, Canakkale. 

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.

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

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 

scholarly journals PESQUISA QUALITATIVA: REFLEXÕES GEOGRÁFICAS A PARTIR DE UM ESTUDO DE CASO SOBRE AS CONTRADIÇÕES URBANAS DA CIDADE DE SOROCABA – SP / Qualitative Research: Geographic Considerations from a Case Study on Urban Contradictions of the City of Sorocaba - SP

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 145
Author(s):  
Rosalina Burgos
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Research Methodology ◽  
Right To The City ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative Analysis ◽  
Qualitative And Quantitative ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The City

Partindo do entendimento acerca da importância dos caminhos metodológicos da pesquisa qualitativa no âmbito da Geografia, e do posicionamento acadêmico e social do pesquisador na definição do tema, método e metodologia de pesquisa, destaca-se a relação intrínseca entre a natureza qualitativa e quantitativa dos fenômenos analisados. Esta reflexão é tecida com base na temática acerca das possibilidades de pensar e agir pelo direito à cidade, tendo como estudo de caso o processo recente de valorização e segregação espacial da cidade de Sorocaba.Palavras chave: pesquisa qualitativa, valorização espacial, segregação espacial, direito à cidade, cidade de Sorocaba. ABSTRACTBased on the understanding of the importance of methodology of qualitative research in Geography, and academic and social position of the researcher in the theme definition, method and research methodology, in the relationship between qualitative and quantitative analysis on the essence of phenomena. This reflection is based on the theme of the possibilities of thinking and acting for the right to the city, taking as a case study the recent process of spatial valorization of the city of Sorocaba.Key words: qualitative research, valorization of the space, spatial segregation, the right to the city, city of Sorocaba

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.

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