Are you interested in the right to the city?
Summary of the article titled Human rights and the city: Including marginalised communities in urban development and smart cities from 2019 by Tina Kempin Reuter, published in the Journal of Human Rights.
This is a great preparation to our next interviewee in episode 147, Damian Hewitt, where we talk a lot about the need to include the marginalised groups into city development.
Since we are investigating the future of cities, I thought it would be interesting to see what the right to the city means. This article focuses on the questions of how to build inclusive, fair and accessible cities and how to eliminate inequalities seen in urban communities.
As the most important things, I would like to highlight 3 aspects:

The localisation of human rights is a relatively new trend with two distinct narratives: first, rights in the city focuses on human rights implementation in cities, second the right to the city calls for all inhabitants to be able to fully enjoy and contribute to the city life with all of its services and advantages.
To achieve a human-centred modern urban environment, cities need to involve marginalised communities, like people with disabilities, in urban planning, train the industry and policy-makers about the needs of marginalised communities and engage them actively in product development, design solutions, and problem solving.
Cities can gain new knowledge and insights and become hubs of innovation, sites for new markets and models for other cities in the world and thus they will become key actors in the promotion, protection and implementation of human rights.

You can find the article through this link.
Abstract: The idea that the city belongs to all individuals inhabiting the urban space is grounded in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the New Urban Agenda, and it is referred to as “right to the city” or “rights in the city.” This article discusses how human rights relate to the city and its inhabitants, examines the meaning of the right to the city and human rights in the city in today’s urban environment, and deliberates how to transform cities into spaces that reflect fundamental human rights principles. By looking at the situation of marginalized groups in cities, the article focuses on the questions of how to build inclusive, fair, and accessible cities and how to eliminate inequalities seen in urban communities. Because technology is often cited as one way to foster integration of marginalized communities, special attention will be given to the smart city and the opportunities and challenges presented by information and communication technologies (ICTs) for human rights, accessibility, and inclusion. Using the case of persons with disabilities as an illustration, the article argues that urban development needs to be fundamentally transformed to live up to human rights standards. Only a multi-stakeholder urban design process will produce truly inclusive urban spaces that fulfill the right to the city.
Connecting episodes you might be interested in:

No.003 - Interview with Frans-Anton Vermast about Amsterdam's smart urban governance;
No.069 - Interview with Dr Éva Kereszty about disability in the city;

You can find the transcript through this link.
What wast the most interesting part for you? What questions did arise for you? Let me know on Twitter @WTF4Cities or on the wtf4cities.com website where the shownotes are also available.
I hope this was an interesting episode for you and thanks for tuning in.
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