This work is part of the book "A Manifesto for the Just City" launched by TU Delft. This book addresses the need to re-imagine and re-conceptualise the Just City in light of recent systemic shocks: climate change, the pandemic, a generalised erosion of democratic standards and more. It contains texts by a number of guest authors and 43 manifestos written by students from 25 universities from all over the world.
A “Manifesto for the Just City” comes in the wake of the realisation that socio-spatial justice is a crucial dimension for sustainability transitions. 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, we have sought to encourage students to formulate their own visions for the Just City and for a just transition.
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.
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 urbanization upholding the principles and guidelines contained in the New Urban Agenda, launched at Habitat-III in 2016 in Quito, Ecuador.
The complete work can be accessed at this link: https://issuu.com/robertorocco/docs/utc_report_main_reduced
