[...]... Charter and the Mexico City Charter for the Right to the City Also with due recognition is the recent inclusion of the right to the city in the constitutions of Ecuador and Bolivia The Dimensions and Components of the Right to the City The right to the city is: • The right to habitat that facilitates a network of social relations • The right to social cohesion and the collective construction of the city. .. response to that hope and also to the call to unite under the right to the city banner, thus giving the floor to a wide range of actors who fight for the right to the city The wide variety of views, discourses, cultures and experiences are the guiding themes of this publication We propose to articulate different ideas and converge their differences towards the same goal: the right to the city as a... city • The right to live with dignity in the city • The right to co-existence • The right to influence and access the municipal government • The right to equal rights According to the World Charter for the Right to the City, this new right is a collective right of urban dwellers, especially of vulnerable and disadvantaged groups, that legitimizes their action and organisation based on their habits and. .. human rights to achieve the goal of reclaiming the city for all its inhabitants However, it is important to clarify that the right to the city is not an additional human right; rather it is the right to enforce other rights that already formally exist As such, the right to the city is based on a dynamic of process and conquest, in which social movements are the engine driving the achievement of this right. .. space; and urban planning in the interests of a few 1 2 3 The slogan for the World Urban Forum 5 in 2010 is The Right to the City: Bridging the Urban Divide Rather than focusing on the divided, HIC works to articulate the positive forces towards the right to the city http://www.hic-net.org/news.php?pid=2953, David Harvey at the World Social Forum, Belem: The Right to the City as Alternative to Neoliberalism,... education, and housing, as well as symbolic resources such as participation and access to information The right to the city is the right of everyone to create cities that meet human needs All people should have equal rights to build the different types of cities that they want As David Harvey (2009) argues, the right to the city is not simply the 22 Cities for All right to what already exists in the city; ... paths towards the realization of the right to the city and the construction of another city It is essential to recognize and capitalize on this diversity of ways of thinking about the right to the city and the different ways of action that lead to its implementation This touches on the articulation and feedback between actors as well as between theory and action In order to avoid distortion of the perception... powerful tool in these efforts to build a global movement for the right to the city from the social movements We dedicate this book to organisations and social actors, professionals and academics from civil society, working and fighting for the right to the city in the world This dedication is also extended to the people interested in these issues, that while not knowing that there is a right to the city, ... Opportunities and Challenges of a (Globalizing) Right to the City Movement, p 99 22 Ortiz, Enrique, The Construction Process towards the Right to the City: Progress made and challenges pending, p 113 23 Fajemirokun, Mobola, The Concept and Implementation of the Right to the City in Anglophone Africa, p 121 18 Cities for All The section on public policy and planning demonstrates how these tools can be... masters of the city and it is the sphere for the construction of a collective life Strategies to realize the right to the city Based on the fact that there are now cities without citizens,” the right to the city represents the struggle of invisible city dwellers that have been robbed of a space where they can develop and live with dignity The right to the city constitutes a variety of human rights, making . alt="" Cities for All Proposals and Experiences towards the Right to the City