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Rights and the City
Problems, Progress, and Practice
Edited by Sandeep Agrawal
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 combat discriminatory practices, but also advance a human rights agenda. The authors examine the legal, conceptual, and philosophical aspects of rights, including its various forms—human, Indigenous, housing, property rights, and various other forms of rights. Using empirical evidence and examples, they translate the philosophical and legal aspects of rights into more practical terms and applications. Regionally, the book draws on municipalities from across Canada while also making broad international comparisons. Scholars, policy makers, and activists with an interest in urban studies, planning, and law will find much of value throughout this volume.
Contributors: Sandeep Agrawal, Rachelle Alterman, Sasha Best, Alexandra Flynn, Eran S. Kaplinsky, Ola P. Malik, Jennifer A. Orange, Michelle L. Oren, Renée Vaugeois. Afterword by Benjamin Davy
Book details
Publication date: October 2022Features: Afterword, 2 tables, 2 charts
Keywords: 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
Subject(s): SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, LAW / Housing & Urban Development, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Urban communities, Housing and homelessness, Human Rights, Social Policy, Urban Studies, Urban Studies / Human Rights, 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
Publisher(s): The University of Alberta Press
Book details
Publication date: October 2022Features: Afterword, 2 tables, 2 charts
Keywords: 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
Subject(s): SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Urban, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, LAW / Housing & Urban Development, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Urban communities, Housing and homelessness, Human Rights, Social Policy, Urban Studies, Urban Studies / Human Rights, 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
Publisher(s): The University of Alberta Press
Sandeep Agrawal. Sandeep Agrawal is Professor and Inaugural Director of the School of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Alberta.
Sandeep Agrawal. Sandeep Agrawal is Professor and Inaugural Director of the School of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Alberta.