Creating more just cities
Séverine Deneulin
Eighty percent of the Latin American population is now urban, but the urbanization process has been accompanied by greater inequality and social segregation. To address urban exclusion, the idea of ‘the right to the city’ is increasingly being endorsed by international organizations and national governments as conceptual framework for urban policy towards more inclusive cities. The paper argues that the right to the city is a limited framework to revert the fragmentation trend of the Latin American city, and it examines how the capability approach could offer more suitable conceptual tools to that effect. The paper proposes the idea of ‘just cities for life’ as the outcome of a combination of the right to the city and a capability-view of justice. It explores some avenues for translating the idea into concrete actions to create cities in which all residents can equally have opportunities to live well in the urban space they share.
Alternative title: | The right to the city and capability approach combined |
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Year of publication: |
2014
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Authors: | Deneulin, Séverine |
Institutions: | Centre for Development Studies (contributor) |
Publisher: |
Bath : Centre for Development Studies, Univ. of Bath |
Subject: | Latin America | urban inequality | social justice | Amartya Sen | capability approach | Lateinamerika | Soziale Gerechtigkeit | Social justice | Soziale Ungleichheit | Social inequality | Stadtentwicklung | Urban development | Armut | Poverty |
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Extent: | Online Ressource (26 S.) Lit. S. 21-23 |
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Series: | Bath papers in international development and wellbeing. - Bath : [Verlag nicht ermittelbar], ISSN 2040-3151, ZDB-ID 2773225-3. - Vol. 32 |
Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Type of publication (narrower categories): | Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper ; Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature |
Language: | English |
Other identifiers: | hdl:10419/128127 [Handle] |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010393592
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