right to the city

Great stuff on the new Right to the City Website

john — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 14:41:46 -0500

We just discovered the newly redesigned website for the Right to the City Alliance, and it's got some great material on it, including a new resources page, the current highlight of which is a great 43-page case study of media representation of gentrification in the Bay Area called "Displacing the Dream"

David Harvey @ the WSF Belem

john — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:03:58 -0500

We're hoping to round up a bit more on Right to the City/Urban Reform activities at the recent World Social Forum in Belem (please send us links if you have them!), but in the meantime, you can check out a transcript of David Harvey's speech, courtesy of Vice Magazine, of all places.

Meanwhile, an english translation of the urban "convergence" document from the WSF has appeared: Declaration of urban movements and networks against the crisis and promoting the Right to the City during WSF in Belém

There's also been an interesting text circulating investigating two conceptions of this "The Right to the City" notion in the context of the WSF urban convergence declaration: check it out at reclaiming spaces

Right to the City NYC - storming the boardrooms of urban power

john — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 09:29:01 -0500

There's coverage over at NY Indymedia of a great action by members of the NY Chapter of the Right to the City Alliance, who stormed into a backroom meeting of NYC Mayor Bloomberg and Corporate CEOs. After more than a day in central booking, "the Right to the City Eight" are now back on the streets - there's some audio interviews and more links about the action here.

Another essential essay: David Harvey's "The Right to the City"

john — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 16:02:21 -0500

In the September/October issue of New Left Review, David Harvey provides an overview of urban development, its historical and current relationship to a now globalized capitalist crisis and the concomitant dimensions of urban class struggle (dispossession versus the fight for the right to city).