The Sustainable City
(2016) MRSK61 20161Human Rights Studies
- Abstract
- Investigating the matter of urban sustainability, previous research within the field argues that the social dimension of sustainability has been deprioritized, one potential reason being that it is less tangible then the economic and ecological dimension. Furthermore, citizen participation and inclusiveness is identified as central to the social dimension on an international as well as Swedish national level. As participation and non-discrimination are central aspects of a human rights perspective as well, the aim of this thesis is to investigate how civil dialogue can be utilized as a tool for promoting human rights-based social sustainability in an urban development context. The theoretical approach of the thesis consists of a human... (More)
- Investigating the matter of urban sustainability, previous research within the field argues that the social dimension of sustainability has been deprioritized, one potential reason being that it is less tangible then the economic and ecological dimension. Furthermore, citizen participation and inclusiveness is identified as central to the social dimension on an international as well as Swedish national level. As participation and non-discrimination are central aspects of a human rights perspective as well, the aim of this thesis is to investigate how civil dialogue can be utilized as a tool for promoting human rights-based social sustainability in an urban development context. The theoretical approach of the thesis consists of a human rights perspective on urban development, which was created by combining the theories of The Right to the City by David Harvey and The Just City by Susan Fainstein. Using a SWOT analysis, the human rights perspective is applied to a case study on civil dialogue in the City of Lund. Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats are identified and analyzed in relation to the human rights perspective, where after the result from the analysis is discussed with key themes identified in previous research. The thesis concludes that civil dialogue, if underpinned by human rights values, can be used as an indicator of human rights-based social sustainability, thereby promoting the social dimension of sustainability and furthering the sustainable city. (Less)
- Popular Abstract (Swedish)
- Uppsatsen undersöker ämnet hållbara städer och tidigare forskning inom området indikerar att den sociala dimensionen av hållbarhet har varit mindre prioriterad än den ekonomiska och ekologiska dimensionen. På både svensk, nationell som internationell nivå har medborgardeltagande och delaktighet identifierats som centralt för den sociala dimensionen. Då deltagande och icke-diskriminering är centralt även inom rättighetsperspektivet är syftet med denna uppsats att undersöka hur medborgardialog kan användas som ett verktyg för att främja människorättsbaserad social hållbarhet i en stadsutvecklingskontext. Uppsatsens teori består av ett människorättsperspektiv på stadsutveckling, vilket skapades genom att kombinera teorin om The Right to the... (More)
- Uppsatsen undersöker ämnet hållbara städer och tidigare forskning inom området indikerar att den sociala dimensionen av hållbarhet har varit mindre prioriterad än den ekonomiska och ekologiska dimensionen. På både svensk, nationell som internationell nivå har medborgardeltagande och delaktighet identifierats som centralt för den sociala dimensionen. Då deltagande och icke-diskriminering är centralt även inom rättighetsperspektivet är syftet med denna uppsats att undersöka hur medborgardialog kan användas som ett verktyg för att främja människorättsbaserad social hållbarhet i en stadsutvecklingskontext. Uppsatsens teori består av ett människorättsperspektiv på stadsutveckling, vilket skapades genom att kombinera teorin om The Right to the City av David Harvey och The Just City av Susan Fainstein. Med hjälp av en SWOT-analys tillämpas sedan människorättsperspektivet på en fallstudie om medborgardialog i Lunds kommun. Styrkor, svagheter, möjligheter och hot identifieras och analyseras i förhållande till människorättsperspektivet, varefter resultatet från analysen diskuteras med huvudteman som identifierats inom tidigare forskning. Uppsatsen drar till sist slutsatsen att medborgardialog, om denna är förankrad i värderingar hämtade från människorättsperspektivet, kan användas som en indikator för människorättsbaserad social hållbarhet och därigenom främja den sociala dimensionen av hållbarhet och sträva mot den hållbara staden på både svensk, nationell och internationell nivå. (Less)
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- author
- Karlsson, Johanna LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- MRSK61 20161
- year
- 2016
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- The right to the city, urban justice, social sustainability, sustainable cities, civil dialogue, the just city, Fainstein, Harvey, human rights, citizen participation, rätten till staden, urban rättvisa, social hållbarhet, hållbara städer, medborgardialog, mänskliga rättigheter, rättvisa städer, hållbar utveckling.
- language
- English
- id
- 8875463
- date added to LUP
- 2016-08-11 08:30:43
- date last changed
- 2016-08-11 08:30:43
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abstract = {{Investigating the matter of urban sustainability, previous research within the field argues that the social dimension of sustainability has been deprioritized, one potential reason being that it is less tangible then the economic and ecological dimension. Furthermore, citizen participation and inclusiveness is identified as central to the social dimension on an international as well as Swedish national level. As participation and non-discrimination are central aspects of a human rights perspective as well, the aim of this thesis is to investigate how civil dialogue can be utilized as a tool for promoting human rights-based social sustainability in an urban development context. The theoretical approach of the thesis consists of a human rights perspective on urban development, which was created by combining the theories of The Right to the City by David Harvey and The Just City by Susan Fainstein. Using a SWOT analysis, the human rights perspective is applied to a case study on civil dialogue in the City of Lund. Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats are identified and analyzed in relation to the human rights perspective, where after the result from the analysis is discussed with key themes identified in previous research. The thesis concludes that civil dialogue, if underpinned by human rights values, can be used as an indicator of human rights-based social sustainability, thereby promoting the social dimension of sustainability and furthering the sustainable city.}},
author = {{Karlsson, Johanna}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{The Sustainable City}},
year = {{2016}},
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