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Advancing Urban Rights Equality and Diversity in the City Advancing urban rights Equality and diversity in the city Eva Garcia-Chueca and Lorenzo Vidal (Eds.) 76 Advancing urban rights Equality and diversity in the city Eva Garcia-Chueca and Lorenzo Vidal (Eds.) 76 ©2019 CIDOB CIDOB edicions Elisabets, 12 08001 Barcelona Tel.: 933 026 495 www.cidob.org [email protected] Printing: Book-Print S.A. ISBN: 978-84-92511-75-4 Legal deposit: B 25546-2019 Barcelona, November 2019 Cover Image: Matteo Paganelli CONTENTS ABOUT THE AUTHORS 5 INTRODUCTION 11 Eva Garcia-Chueca and Lorenzo Vidal THE RIGHT TO THE CITY AS A RIGHT TO DIFFERENCE 21 Michele Grigolo ................................................................................................................................... 23 Understanding the right to the city as the right to difference Jordi Borja ................................................................................................................................................ 33 The right to the city: from the street to globalisation FOSTERING EQUALITY AND DIVERSITY AT LOCAL LEVEL 43 JoAnn Kamuf Ward ............................................................................................................................. 45 Human rights as a means to advance equity and embrace difference: lessons from US cities Thomas Angotti .................................................................................................................................. 55 Diverse cities: the legacy of colonialism and persistence of racism in New York City Jaime Morales ....................................................................................................................................... 65 Innovation and hope: the right to the city in Mexico City's new government (2018–2024) Shams Asadi ........................................................................................................................................... 75 From the Vienna Charter for neighbourly relations to Vienna as a City of Human Rights Enrique López ....................................................................................................................................... 85 Madrid City Council’s Strategic Human Rights Plan: lessons learned (2015–2019) Haleemah Alamoush ....................................................................................................................... 97 Amman, a welcoming city for migrants and refugees Soo A Kim ............................................................................................................................................. 105 Policies, tools and mechanisms to build a human rights city: the experience of Gwangju Jordi Baltà ............................................................................................................................................. 115 Cultural policies, the right to the city and the right to difference: reflections on the Agenda 21 for culture BOTTOM-UP CITY-MAKING 125 Alexandre Apsan Frediani ........................................................................................................... 127 The “right to the city” as an ethos of engagement: lessons from civil society experiences in the Global South Irene Escorihuela ............................................................................................................................. 137 Promoting the right to the city from below: experiences of co-creation in Europe METROPOLITAN AND MULTILEVEL GOVERNANCE FRAMEWORKS 147 Ricard Gomà ........................................................................................................................................ 149 The metropolitan construction of the right to the city: towards innovative governance models Antonio Aniesa ................................................................................................................................. 161 Polycentrism and the right to the city in metropolitan areas Fernando Carrión ............................................................................................................................ 169 The right to the city and multilevel governance in Latin America ABOUT THE AUTHORS Haleemah Alamoush Responsible for preparing, handling and evaluating social responsibility plans at Greater Amman Municipality, Jordan since 2010. Accredited National Expert and Trainer by the International Organization for Standardization (Geneva) in the field of Social Responsibility ISO 26000. She is one the founders of the Child Friendly City Initiative in Jordan, with extensive experience in the implementation, training and M&E sides of this initiative. Haleemah also participated in capacity building activities (Training, Methodologies Development and Implementation) related to the King Abdullah II Award for Excellence in Government Performance and Transparency. She has significant experience in the field of strategic planning, evaluation and monitoring of the social development munic- ipal sector, with high exposure to the national and international social development arenas. Haleemah holds a BSc in Engineering (1995). She is also a Certified Quality Manager, Certified EFQM Assessor (Institutional Excellence Expert) and Certified Professional Trainer. Thomas Angotti Professor Emeritus of Urban Policy and Planning at Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, United States. He was the founder and director of the Hunter College Center for Community Planning and Development. His recent books include Zoned Out! Race, Displacement and City Planning in New York City, Urban Latin America: Inequalities and Neoliberal Reforms, The New Century of the Metropolis, New York For Sale: Community Planning Confronts Global Real Estate, which won the Davidoff Book Award, and Accidental Warriors and Battlefield Myths. He is an editor of Progressive City, Latin American Perspectives and Local Environment. He is active in community and environmental issues in New York City. Antonio Aniesa Advisor to the President of the Communauté d’Agglomération Plaine Commune, an association of nine municipalities whose nerve centre is in Saint-Denis, located on the northeastern periphery of Paris, France. Currently, the Plaine Commune is Co-President of the Committee on Social Inclusion, Participatory Democracy and Human Rights of United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), from where it promotes a political agenda for human rights, solidary metropolises and social inclusion at a global scale. In 2003, Antonio Aniesa founded the World Forum for Local Authorities of Periphery (FALP), which he coordinated for more than a decade as Head of International Relations of Nanterre, France. 5 •76• 2019 Shams Asadi Human Rights Commissioner and Director of the Human Rights Office of the City of Vienna, Austria. She studied architecture and urban plan- ning abroad before arriving in Vienna, where she graduated from the University of Technology. She has many years of practical and academic experience in Urban Regeneration and Urban Development with a focus on European and international affairs. The human rights dimension of urban development has been a constant since beginning of her profes- sional life and since 2010 human rights have been the main subject of her career. Jordi Baltà Consultant and project manager in culture and international affairs and advisor on culture for United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) (Agenda 21). Jordi is a member of the UNESCO Group of Experts on the Governance of Culture in Developing Countries and regularly works for other organisations, such as the Asia-Europe Museum Network (ASEMUS). Jordi is also Associate Professor at the Blanquerna-Universitat Ramon Llull and works as a consultant and tutor for the online MA in Cultural Management jointly organ- ised by the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and the University of Girona. Between 2001 and 2014 Jordi worked as researcher and project coordinator at the Interarts Foundation. Between 2010 and 2014 he was scientific coordinator of the European Expert Network on Culture. Jordi holds a BA in Political Science from the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, a Master’s in European Cultural Policy and Administration from the University of Warwick and a Postgraduate Degree in International Cultural Cooperation from University of Barcelona. He is currently a PhD candidate in Cultural Policy at the universities of Melbourne and Girona. Jordi Borja Professor Emeritus at the the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, España. He has also been Professor at the University of Barcelona and the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Jordi has also taught and consulted for a number of organisations and cities, such as the United Nations, the European Union, New York University and the Pratt Institut (New York), Paris (Grand Paris, Ministère Équipement), FLACSO, Mexico City, Buenos Aires, Santiago de Chile, Rio de Janeiro, Bogotá, Quito, Lisbon, Roma, Montreal, and others. Jordi was one of the founders of the Centre of Urban, Municipal and Territorial Studies (CEUMT), which, between 1972 and 1986, sup- ported the formation of urban popular movements. Furthermore, Jordi has been a member of the Catalan parliament (1980–1984) and member of Barcelona City Council (1983–1995). Later, he was head of the consultancy firm Urban Technology. He studied Law in Barcelona and obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Sociology, a Postgraduate Degree in Urban Geography, a Master’s Degree in Urbanism and a PhD from the Sorbonne. He also holds a PhD in Urban Geography from the University of Barcelona.
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