CCDDSS The University of Auckland Centre for Development Studies WWoorrkkiinngg PPaappeerr NNoo.. 44 // 22001111 The Right to the City: Research and Engagement at the World Urban Forum 5, 2010 June 2011 About CDS The Centre for Development Studies (CDS) is a cross-faculty, interdisciplinary graduate programme located in the Faculty of Arts. Development Studies engages in the critical issues of social change which are transforming global society. Our postgraduate programme provides a supportive environment for open, critical debate of leading development issues. CDS Working Paper Series The CDS Working Paper Series encourage Development Studies faculty and students to disseminate empirical research findings in a timely manner and stimulate discussion on issues specific to development. In addition to creating an avenue for faculty and students to share their research, the Working Paper Series will promote the generation and use of quality research in the field of international development by: Becoming an intellectual focal point for innovative thinking and research by facilitating the wide dissemination of research results relevant to the interests and concerns of students, researchers, policy makers, and practitioners across the international development community worldwide; Heightening the Centre’s national and international profile by connecting individuals and encouraging interaction among the international development academic and non-academic communities both within and outside New Zealand; Establishing stronger links with government policy makers, particularly the New Zealand Agency for International Development (NZAID), and nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) to enhance the applied content of Development Studies programmes; Providing an opportunity for faculty and students to receive constructive feedback on their ideas and research before submission to peer reviewed journals or other publications; and Enabling faculty members’ and students’ work to be cited by other researchers in the field. For further information on CDS, contact Centre for Development Studies University of Auckland Tel: + 64 9 373 7599, ext 85338 Fax: + 64 9 373 7439 Email: [email protected] Web: www. www.arts.auckland.ac.nz/dev UoA Centre for Development Studies Working Paper No. 4 / June 2011 Preface In June 2009 The University of Auckland (UoA) became the first New Zealand partner in the innovative Habitat Partner University Network (HPU) coordinated by the United Nations agency for Human Settlements (UN-HABITAT). UN-HABITAT is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities throughout the world. The partnership was formalised on 19 June 2009 with the signing of an agreement between Vice-Chancellor Professor Stuart McCutcheon and United Nations Under-Secretary-General Professor Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka. The HPU Network brings together international universities with a focus on international sustainability. The HPU Network sees universities as key stakeholders in their own communities with the potential to promote socially and environmentally sustainable urban development. The HPU Network provides opportunity for collaboration, cooperation and exchange between southern and northern universities based on reciprocity and mutual benefit. Key principles of the HPU network focus on urban poverty reduction; inter- disciplinarity and trans-disciplinarity; linking local, regional, national and global level actors; and a commitment to the Millennium Development Goals and sustainable urbanization. In 2009 Professor Dory Reeves and Dr Yvonne Underhill-Sem were awarded a Vice Chancellor's Strategic Development Fund (VCSDF) to promote international collaborative research and teaching in urban and social sustainability through the UN-HABITAT Partnership. The VCSDF enabled an expert from UN-HABITAT to spend a month at the University in 2011 to run a series of workshops and seminars in the field of urban sustainability. The VCSDF also supported an interdisciplinary research team to travel to Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea in early 2011 to facilitate a number of participatory workshops with local government, NGOs, UN Women, academics and graduate students, on issues of gender and planning for inclusive cities. The first component of the VCSDF was to enable a multi-disciplinary delegation from the UoA to participate in UN-HABITAT's World Urban Forum 5, held in Rio de Jainero, Brazil in March 2010.The delegation comprised of postgraduate students and staff from the faculties of Arts, Law, National Institute of Creative Arts and Industries (NICAI), Health and Medical Sciences, Science and the James Henare Research Centre. The team were, Professor Dory Reeves, School of Planning and Architecture, NICAI; Dr Yvonne Underhill-Sem, Centre for Development Studies, Faculty of Arts; Associate Professor David Grinlinton, Faculty of Law; Dr Ward Friesen, Geography, Faculty of Science; Dr Rosangela Tenorio, School of Architecture and Planning, NICAI; Dr Merata Kawharu, James Henare Research Centre; Dr Anita Lacey, Department of Political Science, Faculty of Arts; Dr Alex Macmillan, Environmental Health, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences; Claire Speedy, International Development Manager, NICAI; Alexandra JaYeun Lee, PhD Candidate, School of Architecture and Planning, NICAI; Kathryn Scott, PhD Candidate, Anthropology, Faculty of Arts; Yardena Tankel, Masters Candidate, Centre for Development Studies, Faculty of Arts; Anna Blackwell, Masters Candidate, Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences. i UoA Centre for Development Studies Working Paper No. 4 / June 2011 Contents Preface .................................................................................................................................. i Introduction ........................................................................................................................... iii Citizenship and Participation Who’s Right to the City? Citizenship in Brazil .................................................................... 1 Yardena Tankel ............................................................................................................... Bridging the Urban Divide through Participatory Governance ............................................ 8 Kathryn Scott ................................................................................................................... Pacific Reflections Honiara, Solomon Islands: new urbanization challenges, a new development imagination? ........................................................................................................................................ 14 Dr Anita Lacey ................................................................................................................. Marketplaces, diverse economies, and empowering women in PNG ............................... 21 Dr Yvonne Underhill-Sem ................................................................................................ Traditional Knowledge Sustainable urban development in Auckland: reaffirming a cultural footprint in the urban landscape........................................................................................................................ 26 Dr Merata Kawharu ......................................................................................................... Adequate and affordable housing typologies in the warm-humid tropics’ ............................. Dr Rosangela Tenorio ................................................................................................. 33 Health and Wellbeing A transdisciplinary approach to healthy transport policy .................................................. 37 Alex Macmillan ................................................................................................................ Achieving healthy urban planning: a comparison of three methods ................................. 46 Anna Blackwell ................................................................................................................ Humanitarianism and Crisis Bridging the urban divide: towards a transdisciplinary design of the built environment .... 52 Alexandra JaYeun Lee .................................................................................................... Gendered reflections from WUF5 on approaches to post-disaster reconstruction and women’s participation in the rebuilding of communities ................................................... 58 Claire Speedy .................................................................................................................. Partnerships Role of Universities in delivering sustainable urbanisation; partnerships between UN- HABITAT and Universities and the formative network of Habitat Partner Universities ..... 68 Professor Dory Reeves ................................................................................................... ii UoA Centre for Development Studies Working Paper No. 4 / June 2011 Introduction ‘The right to the city’ was the critical and timely overall theme of the UN Habitat World Urban Forum 5 (WUF5) in 2010. As growing numbers of citizens of cities worldwide are having their social, economic, political and cultural rights abrogated in many and various ways, the challenges are daunting. We cannot, however, be overwhelmed by these challenges in ensuring all urban citizens are entitled to live in secure and inclusive cities. The interdisciplinary delegation from The University