A Manifesto for the Just City: a book
Justice is a crucial dimension for sustainable cities and communities. Recent systemic shocks including climate change, the pandemic, a general erosion of democratic norms and more have prompted a rethinking and conceptualisation of the Just City in this light. A Manifesto for the Just City includes texts by a number of guest authors and 43 manifestos written by students from 25 universities around the world.
Transitions and justice
Transitions to sustainability must be more than efficient, they must also be just. Justice is the cornerstone of the newly enacted European Green Deal (EGD), in which Europe finally puts its money where its mouth is: more than one trillion euros will be poured in key sectors of the economy in the next years to make Europe more sustainable through a circular economy, stepping away from fossil fuels. Such an effort would be worthless if it were not inclusive: we must leave no one behind. Justice underscores support, compliance and acceptance of policy. Cities are at the very centre of this effort.
Visions for a just transition
Growing inequality and the erosion of the public sphere undermine the social and political structures required to fight climate change, pandemics and other systemic shocks. With this book, researchers have sought to encourage students to formulate their own visions for the Just City and for a just transition.
More information
This book is result of an Urban Thinkers Campus organised between 9 and 30 November 2020. The Urban Thinkers Campus (UTC) model is an initiative by the UN-Habitat’s World Urban Campaign, conceived in 2014 as an open space for critical exchange between stakeholders and partners. It aims to promote debate and action on sustainable and inclusive urbanisation upholding the principles and guidelines contained in the New Urban Agenda, launched at Habitat-III in 2016 in Quito, Ecuador.
The book was published by TU Delft and is available for download from this website
BK Urbanism Course: Complex Cities
BK research programme Global Urban Lab, the urbanisation platform of the TU Delft Global
Contact person: Roberto Rocco (Urbanism; Spatial Planning and Strategy)
