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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RACE AND SPACE<br />
SURAJ<br />
YENGDE<br />
KENNEDY SCHOOL<br />
OF PUBLIC POLICY,<br />
HARVARD<br />
Dr. Suraj Yengde is one of<br />
India’s leading scholars and<br />
public intellectuals. He is <strong>the</strong><br />
author of <strong>the</strong> best-seller Caste<br />
Matters and co-editor of award<br />
winning anthology The Radical<br />
in Ambedkar. Caste Matters<br />
was recently featured in <strong>the</strong><br />
prestigious “Best Non-fiction<br />
Books of <strong>the</strong> Decade” list by<br />
The Hindu.<br />
THE RECONCILIATION OF THE<br />
HORRID PAST THAT MANIFESTS<br />
INTO THE PRESENT REMAINS<br />
UNACKNOWLEDGED. AS<br />
A RESULT, THE QUESTION<br />
OF REPARATION AND<br />
INHERITED PRIVILEGE<br />
DOES NOT FEATURE IN THE<br />
DISCUSSIONS OF DOMINANT-<br />
CASTE PEOPLE. IN CASTE<br />
MATTERS (2019), INDIA VIKING.<br />
Suraj is currently a Senior<br />
Fellow at <strong>the</strong> Harvard Kennedy<br />
School of Public Policy. He<br />
holds a Research Associate<br />
position with <strong>the</strong> department<br />
of African and African American<br />
Studies, a non-resident fellow<br />
at <strong>the</strong> Hutchins Centre <strong>for</strong><br />
African and African American<br />
Research, and is part of <strong>the</strong><br />
founding team of Initiative<br />
<strong>for</strong> Institutional Anti-Racism<br />
and Accountability (IARA) at<br />
Harvard University.<br />
To know more about Suraj’s<br />
activities, please visit:<br />
https://scholar.harvard.edu/<br />
surajyengde/about<br />
To know more about his book<br />
Caste Matters, please visit:<br />
https://penguin.co.in/book/<br />
caste-matters/<br />
Photo provided by speaker. Printed<br />
with permission.<br />
Photo provided by speaker. Printed with permission.<br />
Captured by Studio Incendo from Flickr. Creative commons Attribution 2.0 (generic).
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