Proposals and Experiences Towards the Right to - Cities Alliance

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Cities for All
Proposals and Experiences
towards the Right to the City

Cities for All
Proposals and Experiences
towards the Right to the City
Edited by
Ana Sugranyes
Charlotte Mathivet

Habitat International Coalition, HIC
Habitat International Coalition acknowledges the different authors for their collaboration
with this publication.
We also acknowledge the funding support of MISEREOR.
Cities for All: Proposals and Experiences towards the Right to the City
Edited by Ana Sugranyes and Charlotte Mathivet-Habitat International Coalition (HIC)
First edition - Santiago, Chile, 2010
ISBN: 978-956-208-090-3
Text edition by Charlotte Mathivet and Shelley Buckingham
Translations by Shamrock Idiomas Ltda.
Design by Andoni Martija
Cover photograph by Charlotte Mathivet
Photographs in the text from Habitat International Coalition archives
Edition Management by Luis Solis
Corrections by Eva Salinas
Habitat International Coalition (HIC) www.hic-net.org
Email: [email protected]
HIC General Secretariat
Coronel Santiago Bueras, 142, of. 22,
8320135 Santiago, Chile
The partial or total reproduction of this book is permitted, always citing the source and
authors.
Printed in Chile
To Han van Putten,
and all of those fighting for the right to the city
Glossary
This book gathers experiences and proposals that have emerged from different
contexts. The original texts were written in Spanish, Portuguese, English and
French. In the translated texts, we have kept some of the terms in their original
language in order to comply with their respective local or regional specificity. To
simplify the reading of this book, we present here a definition of four of these
terms.
Pavement dweller: Expresses a particular reality in India of people who live in
extreme poverty on the sidewalks of city streets, where they settle and build
their precarious homes.
Población (pl. poblaciones): A term used in Chile to define a consolidated
settlement, the result of land seizures that took place in the 1950s and 60s, or
of poorly urbanized plots of land. The process of urbanization in poblaciones
has been undertaken by its pobladores (see definition below) and through
several public policy interventions.
Poblador (pl. pobladores): A term used in Latin America which adds a social
and political connotation to the concept of ‘inhabitant’. It refers to collectives
of popular settlements that fight for their space, neighbourhood, street, and
rights in the city.
Shack: Housing with no security of tenure, built with precarious housing
materials, and lacking urban services.
Index
Prologue
Davinder Lamba 11
Introduction
Cities for All: Articulating the Social-Urban Capacities
Ana Sugranyes and Charlotte Mathivet 13

The Right to the City: Keys to Understanding the Proposal for
“Another City is Possible”
Charlotte Mathivet 21
Part One
PrOPOsals fOr the right tO the City 27
Democracy in Search of the Future City
Jordi Borja 29
Countering the Right to the Accessible City: The Perversity
of a Consensual Demand
Yves Jouffe 43
Examining the Right to the City from a Gender Perspective
Shelley Buckingham 57
The Right to the City and Gendered Everyday Life
Tovi Fenster 63
A Horizon for Public Policies? Notes on Happiness
Patricia Ezquerra, Henry Renna 77
Rights in Cities and the Right to the City?
Peter Marcuse 87
A New Alliance for the City? Opportunities and Challenges
of a (Globalizing) Right to the City Movement
Giuseppe Caruso 99
The Construction Process towards the Right to the City in Latin America
Enrique Ortiz 113
The Concept and Implementation of the Right to the City
in Anglophone Africa
Mobola Fajemirokun 121
Part twO
exPerienCes Of the right tO the City 129
People’s struggles against marginalization and forced eviction 131
Abahlali baseMojondolo & the Popular Struggle for the Right to the City in
Durban, South Africa
Richard Pithouse 133
Pavement-Dwellers’ Movements in Mumbai, India
María Cristina Harris 141
Villa Los Cóndores, Temuco, Chile Against Eviction and for
the Right to the City
Ana Sugranyes 145
Homeless People Fight for the Right to Housing,
in Mar del Plata, Argentina
Ana Núñez 149
Park Dwellers’ Fight in Osaka, Japan: Homeless demanding
the Right to the City
Marie Bailloux 155
(Re)claiming Citizenship Rights in Accra, Ghana
Afia Afenah
The 2008 Beijing Olympics, China
María Cristina Harris 169
On Defeats and Triumphs in Exercising the Right to the City:
Reflections Based on Recent Experiences in Cities in Argentina
Maria Carla Rodríguez, María laura Canestraro, Marianne Von Lücken 173
Inhabitants of Gaziret al-Dhahab Island, Cairo Face Eviction
María Cristina Harris 183
From Protest to Proposal to Project in Villa Esfuerzo, Santo Domingo
Steffen Lajoie 187