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The Urban Reinventors Special Issue 3: 09
"The Right to the City - The Entitled and the Excluded"
Out now, available online (free of charge) at:
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IMAGE GALLERY
The "Prestes Maia" Reportage - Tatiana Cardeal
The Right to The City: The Entitled and the Excluded - a collective project
La Banlieu à pied - Ludovic Maillard
Night and Decay - Lynn Smith
The Homeless Photographer - Leroy Skalstad
The Duality of Darius Twin - Darius Twin

The ongoing unfolding of the global recession, whose consequences have been devastating particularly to disadvantaged communities worldwide, is highlighting the underlying contradictions of dominant models of profit-driven urbanization. In the U.S., the recession has spurred a widening gap between rich and poor, while a wave of foreclosures has sent thousands of once-middle class households in the streets, in homeless shelters, or in "tent cities", in the midst of an ocean of vacant properties. Yet again, the most dramatic human costs of this crisis are to be seen among the poor across the developing world: the World Bank has estimated that up to 90 million extra people world-wide have fallen into extreme poverty (less than US $1.25 per day) in 2009 as a result of the global economic slowdown. This represents a reversal in the global extreme poverty reduction trend since 2005, with the global number of extreme poor rising to over 1.2 billion people only this year. Given this framework, a right to "equitable human settlements [...] in which all people, without discrimination of any kind as to race, color, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or social status, have equal access to housing, infrastructure, health services, adequate food and water, education and open spaces", has hardly ever seemed as out of reach as it does today. This notwithstanding, in the latest years a revival of interest in Henri Lefebvre's ideas on "the right to the city" has propagated among scholars and activists alike, as a way to counteract market-driven urbanism and commit to values of human dignity and human rights for all [...]

OBJECT
The Urban Reinventors is a newly released online urban journal whose aim is to analyze strategies of urban redevelopment in contemporary cities.

AIM
The contemporary city’s condition will be illustrated by means of very different contents ranging from theory to documentary videos, from reportage to critical reflections, from novels to photographic galleries.

RESOURCES
The journal is conceived as a collection of writings, images and videos. Each thematic issue will lead the reader into a fascinating journey around the bright and dark sides of our contemporary urban condition.

Besides a “Paper Series”, including mainly academic essays, articles and papers from academics in urban planning, architecture, geography, politics, economy, philosophy, cultural studies and the humanities, The Urban Reinventors Online Journal features a “Reportages” section, investigating specific relevant places and events, an “Urban Stories” section, presenting novels, short stories and screenplays of emerging writers, an “Image Gallery”, showcasing photographic reportages as well as artworks about metropolises and urban life, and a “Video Gallery”, functioning as a platform for professionals as well as for emerging artists, video makers and urban reporters.

ONLINE
The Urban Reinventors is available online at
www.urbanreinventors.net

Infos and contacts:
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