THE CITY FROM BELOW _ Spring/Summer 2009 Issue 12 in urbanism
Spring/Summer 2009 Issue 12 in urbanism

local struggles in world of crashes
Spring/Summer 2009 Issue 12 in urbanism
During the World Social Forum January 2009 a number of urban movements and networks agreed on some common framework for cooperation in the context of the WSF during the coming years. They fixed their common approach in a document called “Building Convergences at the World Social Forum“. The political part of that document stresses the [...]
Seeking for larger and more effective cooperation among organisations active in the alter-globalisation movements has been an issue at the WSF in general. This approach at the WSF was called “convergence”. During the World Social Forum January 2009 a number of urban movements and networks agreed on some common framework for cooperation in the context [...]
We won’t pay for your crises - it is time for change!
European cross network civil society meetingfor a common response to the global crises
Paris, 10th - 11th January 2009
I am just coming back from “Right to the City” conference in Berlin, a meeting of leftist urban resarchers from (mainly) Germany, Britain, the U.S. and Canade at the occasion of Peter Marcuses 80th birthday celebration.
It was very dense and important meeting with numerous research reports of highest interest for [...]