Four Eviction Tactics Used by Rio Authorities, and How Favela Residents Have Fought Back

Remaining House in Beira Rio, after neighboring houses were demolished. Photo by Natalie Southwick. Source: http://www.rioonwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Island-of-homes-in-Beira-Rio-e1531319776658.jpg   As of 2015, the City of Rio’s own data showed that 22,059 families (an estimated 77,000 individuals) across the city had been evicted from their homes…

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Whose right, to what city?

Photo Credit: homesforall.org During the 1990s, after decades of disinvestment, white flight and suburbanization, American cities once again became sites of large-scale capital investment. The resulting waves of gentrification[1] and displacement spurred the formation of new social movements, including many that…

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Reflections of an Activist Scholar: Henry Louis Taylor, Jr.

Introductory remarks by contributing editorial board member Jeffrey Lowe: On Friday, April 6th, Henry Louis Taylor, Jr., received the Urban Affairs Association’s (UAA’s) 2018 Marilyn J. Gittell Activist Scholar Award.  Gittell spent her entire 50-year career with the City University…

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Embrace Abolitionist Planning to Fight Trumpism

We write as part of a group of 17 UCLA graduate students in Architecture, Public Policy, and Urban Planning who co-facilitated a course, “Abolitionist Planning in Today’s Political Conjuncture.” In a political moment in which a new state “fully committed…

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