Benjamin Davy
Publisher
transcript Verlag
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Are the rooms in which we move the way they should be? Do they give those who reside in them the opportunity to shape their lives as they deserve?
Wie manifestiert sich der abstrakte und oftmals unterbestimmte Begriff der menschlichen Würde in konkreten räumlichen Konstellationen - etwa öffentlichen Gebäuden oder in einem Hospiz?Die Beiträge des Bandes beleuchten interdisziplinär und dialogisch die unterschiedliche Auflösung dieses Spannungsverhältnisses...
Publisher
University of Alberta Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Rights and the City takes stock of rights struggles and progress in cities by exploring the tensions that exist between different concepts of rights. Sandeep Agrawal and the volume's contributors expose the paradoxes that planners and municipal governments face when attempting not only to combat discriminatory practices, but also advance a human rights agenda. The authors examine the legal, conceptual, and philosophical aspects of rights, including...