Upgrading from below : a collective approach to the Right to the City in the Federal District, Mexico

Thesis: M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 2015.

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Main Author: Evans, Claire M. (Claire Meredith)
Other Authors: Balakrishnan Rajagopal.
Format: Thesis
Language:eng
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/98933
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spelling mit-1721.1/989332019-04-11T07:43:49Z Upgrading from below : a collective approach to the Right to the City in the Federal District, Mexico Evans, Claire M. (Claire Meredith) Balakrishnan Rajagopal. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Urban Studies and Planning. Urban Studies and Planning. Thesis: M.C.P., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, 2015. This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections. Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (pages 86-92). In 2010, then-Mayor Marcelo Ebrard of Mexico's Distrito Federal (DF) signed the Mexico City Charter for the Right to the City. Echoing a global movement by activists, academics, citizens, and government officials, a consortium of municipal activist organizations had written the charter over a three-year participatory process. However, like many Right to the City movements and charters globally, Mexico City has struggled to ground the principles of the Charter through policy, financial resources, and programs at the citywide level. This thesis will suggest an alternative framework for grounding the Right to the City: through local collective action that is connected by transnational networks of civil society actors. Drawing on the experiences of Frente de Renovación Fase 2, a self-built community in the eastern delegation of Izatapalapa, this thesis illustrates how local action is effective in achieving the Right to the City in the short-term, but that long-term gains must be maintained through city-, national-, and global-level networks. by Claire M Evans. M.C.P. 2015-09-29T18:09:37Z 2015-09-29T18:09:37Z 2015 2015 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/98933 921888495 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 118 pages application/pdf n-mx--- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Evans, Claire M. (Claire Meredith)
Upgrading from below : a collective approach to the Right to the City in the Federal District, Mexico
title Upgrading from below : a collective approach to the Right to the City in the Federal District, Mexico
title_full Upgrading from below : a collective approach to the Right to the City in the Federal District, Mexico
title_fullStr Upgrading from below : a collective approach to the Right to the City in the Federal District, Mexico
title_full_unstemmed Upgrading from below : a collective approach to the Right to the City in the Federal District, Mexico
title_short Upgrading from below : a collective approach to the Right to the City in the Federal District, Mexico
title_sort upgrading from below a collective approach to the right to the city in the federal district mexico
topic Urban Studies and Planning.
url http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/98933
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