Global Urban Justice The Rise of Human Rights Cities [Hardcover]

Provides theoretical and practical insights into how the new phenomenon of human rights cities contributes to global urban justice.Written by leading scholars and practitioners, this fascinating account of the rise of human rights cities around the world is relevant to all those interested in either the future of cities or the future of human rights.Written by leading scholars and practitioners, this fascinating account of the rise of human rights cities around the world is relevant to all those interested in either the future of cities or the future of human rights.Cities increasingly base their local policies on human rights. Human rights cities promise to forge new alliances between urban actors and international organizations, to enable the 'translation' of the abstract language of human rights to the local level, and to develop new practices designed to bring about global urban justice. This book brings together academics and practitioners at the forefront of human rights cities and the 'right to the city' movement to critically discuss their history and also the potential that human rights cities hold for global urban justice.1. Introduction: the promise and challenges of human rights cities Barbara Oomen; Part I. Actors and their Shifting Capacities: 2. Cities, human rights and accountability: the United States experience Martha F. Davis; 3. Making human rights the talk of the town: civil society and human rights cities, a case study of the Netherlands Esther van den Berg; 4. Human rights at a local level: the Montr?al experience Beno?t Frate; 5. From principles to practice: the role of US mayors in advancing human rights JoAnn Kamuf Ward; Part II. Renegotiating Rights in the Urban Space: 6. Human rights in the city and the right to the city: two different paradigms confronting urbanisation Eva Garc?a Chueca; 7. Defying the demand to 'go home': from human rights cities to the urbanisation of human rights Jonathan Darling; 8. Contested advocacy: negotiating bel3!