The lecture seeks to highlight the impact of the housing sector on the development of cities and the attainment of the Sustainability Developments Goals (SDGs). It will also unveil the state of housing in Mexico and its opportunities and challenges for compliance with the 2030 Agenda.
AUDIO: Carlos Zedillo - "Good Housing Makes a Good City"
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This lecture will explore how a unique perspective on economic inequality, in this case using a drone, is vitally important to combat what has been described as "the defining challenge of our time".
AUDIO: Johnny Miller- "Unequal Scenes"
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The lecture shows the challenges and opportunities of participatory planning through a series of concrete experiences from the field.
AUDIO: Elisa Maceratini- "Participatory urban planning"
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The lecture focuses on introducing the fast-growing concept of tourism to economically less developed areas, also known as slum tourism, the ethical issues that it needs to deal with, its governance and the ways it may contribute to local development.
AUDIO: Ko Koens - "Slum Tourism"
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This lecture examines how precarious urban livelihoods in the informal economy can be transformed by innovative and rights-based approaches to urban policy, contributing to economic and social inclusion, and recovery in crisis-affected cities.
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AUDIO: Alison Brown - The Urban Informal Economy
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The Mobility of Care: Introducing Gender-Aware Concepts in Transportation Planning aims at providing a better understanding of travel patterns of women and men, by taking into account the travel implications of daily tasks performed by individuals with care responsibilities.
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AUDIO: Ines Sanchez de Madariaga - “Mobility of Care”
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The lecture will address the issue of having more appropriate speeds in cities while increasing efficiency and livability.
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AUDIO: CarlosFelipe Pardo - Reducing speeds for better mobility and quality of life
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Luisa Bravo in this lecture advocates for that public space in cities is a common good, meant to be open, inclusive and democratic – a right for everybody.
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AUDIO: Luisa Bravo - Stand up for public space
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Lewis Dijkstra from the European Commission in this lecture explains why without a global definition of cities, urban indicators are hopelessly distorted and proposes the degree of urbanization as new method to solve this problem.
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In this lecture, Geoffrey Payne distills thirty years of work on land tenure and property rights to provide a conceptual and methodological framework for assessing the issues involved and offers policy options with practical examples.
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AUDIO: Geoffrey Payne - Improving urban tenure security and property rights
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