A Manifesto for the Just City
On Monday 29 MARCH at 18:00 (CET/Amsterdam), TU Delft launched the Book "A Manifesto for the Just City", with texts by a number of guests and 43 manifestos written by students from 25 universities from all over the world. A “Manifesto for the Just City” comes in the wake of the realisation that socio-spatial justice is a crucial dimension for sustainability transitions. Growing inequality and the erosion of the public sphere undermine the social and political structures required to fight climate change, pandemics and other systemic shocks. With this book, we have sought to encourage students to formulate their own visions for the Just City and for a just transition. This book is result of an Urban Thinkers Campus organised between 9 and 30 November 2020. The Urban Thinkers Campus (UTC) model is an initiative of UN-Habitat’s World Urban Campaign, conceived in 2014 as an open space for critical exchange between stakeholders and partners. It aims to promote debate and action on sustainable and inclusive urbanization upholding the principles and guidelines contained in the New Urban Agenda, launched at Habitat-III in 2016 in Quito, Ecuador.
On Monday 29 MARCH at 18:00 (CET/Amsterdam), TU Delft launched the Book "A Manifesto for the Just City", with texts by a number of guests and 43 manifestos written by students from 25 universities from all over the world.
A “Manifesto for the Just City” comes in the wake of the realisation that socio-spatial justice is a crucial dimension for sustainability transitions. Growing inequality and the erosion of the public sphere undermine the social and political structures required to fight climate change, pandemics and other systemic shocks. With this book, we have sought to encourage students to formulate their own visions for the Just City and for a just transition.
This book is result of an Urban Thinkers Campus organised between 9 and 30 November 2020. The Urban Thinkers Campus (UTC) model is an initiative of UN-Habitat’s World Urban Campaign, conceived in 2014 as an open space for critical exchange between stakeholders and partners. It aims to promote debate and action on sustainable and inclusive urbanization upholding the principles and guidelines contained in the New Urban Agenda, launched at Habitat-III in 2016 in Quito, Ecuador.
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A <strong>Manifesto</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Just</strong> <strong>City</strong><br />
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RIGHT TO HOUSING<br />
LEILANI<br />
FARHA<br />
THE SHIFT<br />
Leilani Farha is a Canadian<br />
lawyer and <strong>the</strong> Global Director<br />
of THE SHIFT, a housing<br />
initiative. Between June<br />
2014 and April 2020, she was<br />
<strong>the</strong> United Nations special<br />
rapporteur on adequate<br />
housing. THE SHIFT recognises<br />
housing as a human right, not<br />
a commodity or an extractive<br />
industry. The Shift restores <strong>the</strong><br />
understanding of housing as<br />
home, challenging <strong>the</strong> ways<br />
financial actors undermine<br />
<strong>the</strong> right to housing. Using a<br />
human rights framework, The<br />
Shift provokes action to end<br />
homelessness, unaf<strong>for</strong>dability,<br />
and evictions globally.<br />
She is <strong>the</strong> feature character in<br />
<strong>the</strong> documentary film PUSH<br />
about <strong>the</strong> commodification<br />
of housing and now hosts<br />
a weekly podcast with <strong>the</strong><br />
Director of <strong>the</strong> film, called<br />
PUSHBACK Talks<br />
To know more about The<br />
SHIFT, please visit https://<br />
www.make-<strong>the</strong>-shift.org .<br />
“IN ALMOST EVERY SINGLE COUNTRY, IN EVERY<br />
REGION, IN CITIES AND TOWNS ACROSS THE<br />
GLOBE, WE ARE EXPERIENCING A HUMAN RIGHTS<br />
CRISIS – THE HOUSING CRISIS. AND SOMETHING<br />
NEEDS TO CHANGE. IT’S TIME TO RECLAIM THE<br />
#RIGHT2HOUSING. IT’S TIME TO MAKE THE SHIFT.”
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