Rights and the City Problems, Progress, and Practice

• Other Authors: Agrawal, Sandeep (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Edmonton University of Alberta Press 2022
• Subjects: Urban communities; municipal government; community; civil society; collective rights; Henri Lefebvre; John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights; First Nations; minority; marginalized; homeless; lawyer; urban planner; city council; law; development; policy
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Rights and the City takes stock of rights struggles and progress in cities by exploring the tensions that exist between different concepts of rights. Sandeep Agrawal and the volume's contributors expose the paradoxes that planners and municipal governments face when attempting not only to comba...