Week 5: Right to the City

This week we talked about The “Right to the City” which is a theoretical, political, conceptual framework that refers to such aspects as enforcement, empowerment, participation, self-realization, self-determination, and different forms of protection of existing human rights at the city level. It has been applied explicitly and implicitly in various regions, countries and cities. An effort is made to discern key principles that underlie the concept so that these might inform efforts by cities to promote inclusion and close the urban divide, even in regions where the historical, political and cultural conditions are not conducive to an explicit application of the “Right to the City” approach. This is a movement to take back the city and achieve more equality. http://www.righttothecity.org/

An article I found http://www.righttothecity.org/headed-south-for-freedom.html was about how the Southern Solidarity Summer is starting in July. This is a program cohosted by Virginia New Majority and the Right to the City Alliance, where people will go door to door in virginia educating voters about progress fairness and real economic securities.