Rights to the City
About the Book Series
The Rights to the City book series is dedicated to exploring some of the most important topics in urban studies today. Books featured in the series bring together rich research, clear analysis, and real-world insights to show how people and communities assert, defend, and shape their rights to urban space, assess what type of rights and what type of city we are talking about, and what happens when differing claims over urban space conflict. The series aims to foster interdisciplinary dialogue that not only exposes urban inequities and systemic injustices but helps build more equitable urban research, policy, and action in cities worldwide.
Social Justice and the Immigrant City
1st Edition
By James DeFilippis
March 25, 2027
This book asks the question how should we understand urban social justice in an immigrant society? Through an examination of the politics, conflicts, organizations, communities, and peoples of the borough of Queens in New York City, it shows how to understand, and fight for, social justice in a ...
The City After COVID-19: Vulnerability and Urban Governance in Chicago, Toronto, and Johannesburg
1st Edition
By Hillary Birch, Graeme Gotz, Philip Harrison, Roger Keil, Xuefei Ren
March 24, 2027
This book examines urban and regional governance in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic from a comparative-historical perspective. It critically assesses urban pandemic politics in three urban regions across the Global South and Global North. Chapters explain why cities responded to the COVID-19...
Street Vending and the Right to the City
1st Edition
By Amy Schoenecker
March 12, 2026
Street vendors often face disproportionate state violence not simply for their use of public space, but because of who they are as users of public space. Through a multicity comparison, Street Vending and the Right to the City demonstrates how vendors blur the lines of in/formality through their ...
Extended Mobility for the City as a Common: Furthering the Right to the City in Global Perspective
1st Edition
Edited
By Lucia Capanema-Alvares, Romulo Orrico
October 31, 2025
Extended Mobility for the City as a Common offers a novel framework for understanding how urban inhabitants access and experience cities. It invites readers to critically examine the ways in which stigmatization and socioeconomic barriers combine to restrict access to urban opportunities for ...