212 Housing and the right to the city. Part I

Thursday, August 2, 2012: 9:00 AM-10:30 AM
OB 301 (Faculty of Economics)
RC43 Housing and Built Environment

RC21 Regional and Urban Development (host committee)
Session Organizers:
Manuel B. AALBERS, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands and Kenneth GIBB, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom
Participation in the ‘right to the city': Democratic imaginings and the role of collective action (Oral Presentation)
Stephanie BUTCHER, University College London, Development Planning Unit , United Kingdom; Alex FREDIANI, University College London, United Kingdom

Housing movements in cities of Southern Europe: From 'the right to property' to 'the right to the city' (Oral Presentation)
Dimitra SIATITSA, National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Right to the city: A concept in dispute (Oral Presentation)
Bianca TAVOLARI, Faculdade de Direito da Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil

The right to the city: A theoretical concept and an illuminating idea for the realization of the urban society (Oral Presentation)
Geraldo COSTA, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil

Protest cultures in France and Germany (Oral Presentation)
Elodie VITTU, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany

City building at the periphery of metropolitan Buenos Aires: Local community, political leadership and state intervention (Distributed Paper)
Patricio BESANA, Escuela de Política y Gobierno, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina; Ricardo GUTIÉRREZ, Universidad de San Martín, Argentina

Diversity and homogeneity: Reflecting on the production of housing (Distributed Paper)
Regina BIENENSTEIN, Escola de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil; Glauco BIENENSTEIN, Escola de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil; Monique ANTUNES, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil

Housing and sustainable development: Reflection on urban women's rights to real property in Eastern Nigeria (Distributed Paper)
Olusola Esther AKANMU, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. Nigeria, Nigeria; Ademola Lateef ADISA, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife. Nigeria, Nigeria

La gestión público-privada en grandes proyectos urbanos (GPU) en Argentina (Distributed Paper)
Maria Manuela CORRAL, Becaria Doctoral Centro de Estudios Urbanos y Regionales (CEUR-CONICET)), Argentina

Legal assistance and the development of citizens participation (Distributed Paper)
Glenda MOREIRA, Student, Brazil; Rodrigo PASSOS, Student, Brazil