Resurgent Cities confronts the global crisis of neoliberal urban development where displacement, gentrification, and speculative markets threaten communities. This event, anchored by renowned geographer David Harvey, whose work has fueled decades of struggles for the Right to the City, brings together groundbreaking projects of grassroot resistance and radical imagination from across the globe.

Community organizers, neighborhood activists, city administrators, and preservation and housing advocates from Quito, Mexico City, and Cairo will share hyper-local tactics of defiance and repair from tenant-led battles for housing justice in Mexico City and grassroots cooperative infrastructures in Quito, to reimagining neighborhoods in Cairo via a powerful combination of cultural preservation and rebuilding of infrastructures. They prove that another urban future is not only necessary, but already in motion.

Together, these presentations amplify a transnational call: cities must be reclaimed and shaped by those who inhabit them. Join us as we chart collective strategies for self-determination in our cities—from policy to pavement—by forging cooperative economies, citizen-led governance, and social and cultural infrastructures rooted in justice.

This initiative is organized by the Afrikaanderwijk Cooperative and Urban Front.

Speakers include:
David Harvey, New York
May al-Ibrashy, Cairo
Davarian Baldwin, Connecticut
Silvia Emanuelli, Mexico City
Ola Hassanain, Amsterdam
Sandra Lopez, Quito
Annet van Otterloo, Rotterdam
Miguel Robles Duran, New York
Ana Rodríguez, Quito

Moderator:
Laura Raicovich, New York

Event info:
Tuesday May 27th
Location: De Hillevliet, Hillevliet 90, Rotterdam
Welcome 18:45
Start 19:00 - 22:00 end
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