REPORT OF THE 4TH UCLG WORLD CONGRESS
Parallel Session
Right to the City In 2011, UCLG adopted the Global Charter-Agenda for Human Rights in the City in order to encourage local governments to design public policies that contribute to creating what is known as the “right to the city”. This concept seeks to establish a new political and cultural model in order to institute the local territory as a space for the collective construction and enjoyment of the rights of citizenship, which should be guaranteed to all residents of the city. The panel discussing “The right to the city: fighting against urban inequalities” considered the type of strategies and local policies that enable progress in the implementation of this right. Ms Maite Fandos, Deputy Mayor of Barcelona (Spain), emphasized the importance of public participation in designing social policies (from the diagnostic phase to the implementation phase). Mr Perreau, Deputy Mayor of Nanterre (France), said that the denial of the right to the city has a major impact on spatial segregation problems. This right should also be applied as a “right to inclusive metropolises”. Ms Tijani, the Mayor of Raoued (Tunisia) said that in her regional context, the right to the city involved a thorough implementation of the processes of
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Organizer UCLG Committee on Social Inclusion, Participative Democracy and Human Rights, Habitat International Coalition (HIC), UCLG Committee on Peripheral Cities, Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR)
speakers Giovanni Allegretti, Architect, Urban Planner and Investigator at the Center of Social Studies, University of Coimbra, Portugal Nadia Campeao, Vice-Mayor of Sao Paulo, Brazil Maite Fandos, Deputy Mayor of Barcelona, Spain Gérard Perreau-Bezouille, Deputy Mayor of Nanterre, France Thabo Manyoni, Mayor of Mangaung, South Africa, President of South African Local Government Association (SALGA) Halima Tijani, Mayor of Raoued, Tunisia Frédéric Vallier, Secretary General of Council of European Municipalities and Regions (CEMR) Rapporteur Nelson Saule Jr., General Coordinator, Instituto Pólis, Brazil