05/08/2020
Ruth Glass coined the term gentrification in 1964 to describe the displacement of working-class people from inner-city London districts by middle-class incomers. Around the same time the process began filtering through to screens.
29/06/2020
The Spanish group underwent a drastic change with the arrival of the pandemic. Their aim was to mapping of the labor precariousness in the tourist sector hits an iceberg and we are about to collapse, but suddenly they found themselves shut away in a city without tourists. In this post, it is explained how they collectively addressed a change of direction in their project.
06/06/2020
Although the virus has penetrated to different extents, all partners are working from home and continuing to work away from their offices. As well as practical difficulties, there are conceptual ones too: post-COVID, right to the city issues aren’t quite the same.
12/05/2020
The Dutch did it again, they went ahead the rest of us. Four centuries ago they were one of the first nations in Europe to opt for capitalism when facing the General Crisis. Nowadays, when we all keep wondering whether the coronavirus and a recession that follows in its footsteps spell the apocalypse, the Dutch capital looks forward to the future: ready to abandon well-trodden paths and well-known narratives of perpetual economic growth and try out a new strategy of sustainable eco-growth, i.e. doughnut economics.
06/05/2020
Will coronavirus stop gentrification, touristification and the privatisation of public space?
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03/04/2020
Recognizing the importance of citizen participation in creating a social fabric that brings cities back into their own hands, Kurziv’s hackcamp This Could Be the Space focused on reimagining the city and the processes of collective decision-making in their future development.
02/04/2020
During 3 days, 70 young people, local media and specialist of the Right to the city as Alain Barlatier, anthropologists of the blog "After the "collapse" or the "Museum Street" operation, architects and artists have been exchanging point of view, experiences and ideas around one purpose: generate proposals for actions that could change their right to the city.
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02/04/2020
Climate change has a global dimension, and therefore countering its effects should also take the shape of an effort at the planet-wide level. Does this mean, however, that right to the city activists should remain passive regarding climate issues? Urban activists cannot imagine not taking a fight on such an important matter that would significantly affect the future of us all.
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30/03/2020
Number of European cities' heritage is being put into the service of tourism development, and Spain's Seville is one of them.
23/03/2020
Fanzingo chose to have the Hackcamp together with 20 young people from Botkyrka during their culture summer job given to them by the municipality. It usually means that we make a magazine from scratch and about four films during the three weeks they are with us at Fanzingo. This time we made “Right to the city” the theme of the whole period and incorporated the Hack Camp into the process, the development, production and presentation of the works the youth created.
22/03/2020
In October 2019 our partners ZEMOS98 organized “The city is ours”, a meeting held in Seville with thirty local, national and international participants working the city in areas related to memory, identity, folklore and tourism from artistic, audiovisual, journalistic, statistical and academic fields.
20/03/2020
One of the key assets of Mediactivism is the Media Collection, an archive of more than 400 pieces of alternative media created by active citizens from across Europe.
13/03/2020
The movements for the right to the city are flourishing in different cities of the world as a response to the life conditions imposed by neoliberal politics. Civil society is organising to claim for politics about housing, struggling against those who privatize territories and worsen the living conditions of citizens. Added to that, most of the local councils are failing at their attempts to implement public policies to protect public space and material and immaterial heritage of the cities.