A Manifesto for the Just City

A Manifesto for the Just City
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THE
GLOBAL
URBAN LAB
The Global Urban Lab is a communication
and action platform, which is part of the TU
Delft | Global Initiative. Our goal is to bring
visibility and articulation to TU Delft staff
and students doing work on urbanisation in
the Global South (Low and Middle Income Settings).
Next to hosting discussions, lectures, and events,
the Global Urban Lab predominantly wants to
connect and build knowledge: serving as a platform
throughout all faculties, schools, and departments
for researchers and practitioners to meet, learn, and
collaborate in a transdisciplinary manner.
In a context of social, political and environmental
unrest, there is an urgent need for developing
alternative solutions and relations on a global
scale. Therefore, the Global Urban Lab wants to
share alternative views and knowledge without the
traditional Global North centrism, in order to create a
positive collaboration between different areas of the
planet.
From a wider perspective, the idea of “urban”
includes a broad multiplicity of sites, forms and
scales, from the most remote settlements up to
global metropolises. This approach sees urbanisation
as a process, not as a goal or fixed category, that
overcomes and increasingly diffuses the traditional
divide between ‘the rural’ versus ‘the urban’.
The platform aims to actively seek the connection
outside of the academic realm, proposing itself as
a space for experimentation and action, informing
public, private and civic initiatives of innovative
research happening at TU Delft. For more information,
please visit:
https://globalurbanlab.org