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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CONTENTS<br />
MEET THE ORGANISERS 6<br />
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 7<br />
FROM ABDUL TO XIAO: LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS 8<br />
INTRODUCTION 10<br />
WHY A MANIFESTO (ROBERTO ROCCO) 12<br />
WORKING THROUGH & WORKING TOWARDS (DAVID ROBERTS) 14<br />
GLIMPSES OF THE FUTURE (CAROLINE NEWTON) 16<br />
THE GLOBAL URBAN LAB 18<br />
THE SPATIAL JUSTICE NETWORK (RUSSELL SMITH) 20<br />
SPATIAL JUSTICE & LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOUNDARY CHANGE (RUSSELL SMITH) 21<br />
SPATIAL JUSTICE IS MORE RELEVANT THAN EVER (ROBERTO ROCCO) 25<br />
THE RIGHT TO THE CITY (ROBERTO ROCCO) 28<br />
MEET THE SPEAKERS (ROBERTO ROCCO) 30<br />
LEILANI FARHA (THE SHIFT- #RIGHT2HOUSING) 38<br />
EFRAT COHEN-BAR (BIMKOM PLANNERS FOR PLANNING RIGHTS) 40<br />
STIJN OOSTERLYNCK (UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP) 43<br />
TAINÁ DE PAULA (RIO DE JANEIRO COUNCILWOMAN AND ACTIVIST) 46<br />
SURAJ YENGDE (KENNEDY SCHOOL, HARVARD) 48<br />
INSIGHTS FROM THE ORGANISERS 53<br />
A TRANSFORMATION OF PRACTICE (ANJA VAN DER WATT) 54<br />
THE CHILEAN SOCIAL OUTBURST (LUZ MARIA VERGARA) 56<br />
SOCIO-SPATIAL MOBILITY IN NEIGHBOURHOODS & CITIES (NATALIA TELLEZ) 58<br />
PROCEDURE & DISTRIBUTION ARE NOT ENOUGH (JOHNATHAN SUBENDRAN) 50<br />
A SENTIMENT ANALYSIS (GANESH BABU) 62<br />
MANIFESTO FOR JUST PLANNING EDUCATION 66<br />
THE MANIFESTOS 70<br />
UTC IN NUMBERS 266<br />
LIST OF PARTICIPATING UNIVERSITIES 268<br />
AN ONLINE EXPERIENCE 273
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