This paper makes three major points: 1 The interpretation placed on the events of 9/11, and specifically its use to ground a so-called ‘war on terror’, has been used to buttress conservative political power through restrictions on democracy. 2 Most major decisions about what to do to...

Based on reports on Right to the City Alliances in Spain, Germany, France, Hungary, the USA, Portugal and Greece, this paper puts together questions on organizational issues that have been raised and suggests some hypothetical answers. The issues dealt with include target constituency, problem...

A great deal is at issue in the handling of the threat of terrorism in the United States today. Restrictions on the use of public space are a direct consequence, at the urban level, of what is happening. But beyond that, and beyond the various abuses of civil liberties and common sense that have...

Crush, Jonathan and James Wilmot (eds.) "Crossing boundaries: mine migrancy in a democratic South Africa" Copyright Joint Editors and Blackwell Publishers Ltd 1997.

The attack on the World Trade Center will have a significant effect on urban development in New York City, not so much because it will change existing patterns, but because it will intensify them. The effect will come from the way leaders in the political and business community act after...

The right to the city is becoming, in theory and in practice, a widespread, effective formulation of a set of demands to be actively thought through and pursued. But whose right, what right and to what city? Each question is examined in turn, first in the historical context of 1968 in which...