Right to the City

Members: Gabriela Torrents, Clara Mansueto, Julián Salvarredy
Year of creation: 2010 – present
Location: Metropolitan Area of Buenos Aires
Contact: [email protected]
Web:
https://www.transformaciones.net/pxdc
https://ieh.fadu.uba.ar/investigar-citt/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/derechoalaciudad.fadu/

Description, Concept, Objectives

What is the Platform for the Right to the City?
It is a collaborative research project that seeks to understand and promote the participatory management of the urban habitat. It focuses on generating and disseminating knowledge about the territory in order to produce and transform cities and human settlements, building collectively a fair habitat and territory for all.

Right to the City brings together research and academic initiatives from various educational institutions across the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA). The Platform for the Right to the City is one of the main action-research processes involved in these efforts. PxDC aims to develop a platform that promotes democratic, intersectoral, and interdisciplinary management of public policies within the AMBA. It does so through the participation of research teams, non-governmental organizations dedicated to habitat and territorial issues, and local management entities.

These are collaborative initiatives that operate in Argentina—particularly in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area—to foster a more just and inclusive urban habitat. Both organizations are engaged in researching and disseminating the concept of the Right to the City, which seeks to ensure that all inhabitants have access to sustainable, democratic, and dignified urban environments through joint work with universities and other institutions.

Activities Carried Out

The platform conducts research and outreach activities, including internships and partnerships linked to the elective course Right to the City at the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism (FADU–UBA). These activities also involve students from different disciplines related to the urban habitat from universities across the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area.

Challenges Experienced

The persistent inequality and injustice that characterize both the territory and its institutions.

Future Challenges

To collectively build a just and democratic territory.

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