Media
Mayor Eric Garcetti (Los Angeles)/Benjamin Barber: “Can Cities Counter Trump”
CNN/Fareed Zakaria, December 23, 2016 Link
Benjamin R. Barber: “A Governance Alternative to Faltering Nation-States”
Citylab, December 5, 2016 Let’s count down the list: There’s Brexit, of course: Brazil, Belgium, Spain, Venezuela, and the Philippines all look increasingly dysfunctional. Reactionary populism and xenophobia have risen to power in Hungary, Poland, [...]
The West’s major cities are the best defense against the tide of right-wing nationalism
Washington Post, November 22, 2016 Towards the end of October, Sadiq Khan, the first Muslim mayor of London, addressed an event hosted by the London Jewish Forum that commemorated the 80th anniversary of the Battle of [...]
Mayor Orlando (Palermo): “Een gedreven burgemeester die alle vluchtelingen met open armen ontvangt”
VPRO Tegenlicht, November 15, 2016 – Burgemeester Leoluca Orlando van Palermo, beroemd en geliefd als bestrijder van de maffia, is een man met een missie. Hij wil dat mobiliteit als mensenrecht wordt erkend. Link
Cities Will Be the Best Answer to a Trump White House
New York Magazine – November 15, 2016 As the United States seeks to understand what the hell happened on Election Day, one of the most helpful frames for understanding is the urban-rural divide. Link
City limits: introducing the Global Parliament of Mayors
Geographic Magazine, November 05, 2015 City leaders from around the world gathered recently for the Global Parliament of Mayors. Could cities be set to overtake national governments as key decision makers? Link
Mayor Ada Colau (Barcelona) “After Habitat III: a stronger urban future must be based on the right to the city”
Quito, October 20, 2016 – “All the major global challenges – climate change, the economy, inequality, the very future of democracy – will be solved in cities. If nations want to succeed with their policies, [...]
The Global Parliament of Mayors
Europe in Transition, October 18, 2016 Last September, mayors, experts and City Makers – including municipal officials, researchers, students, social innovators and representatives from social organisations – of seventy-five countries from all over de the [...]
City mayors create “global parliament” to manage urbanisation
Reuters, October 17, 2016 More than 60 mayors from around the world have joined forces to create an alliance dubbed a 'global parliament' to demand a more powerful role in the management of city growth [...]