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Social-Design Issue

UN-HABITAT/UNESCO developed an idea to combine urban development and social equality in the "Right to the City", "which would basically consist of the right of all city dwellers to fully enjoy urban life with all of its services and advantages, as well as taking direct part in the management of cities." (http://portal.unesco.org/shs/en/ev.php-URL_ID=9105&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html) Both organizations percieve urbanization of impoverished areas as a right of the citizens. In this, their approach is to allocate resources by publicizing the rights of the citizens in order to attract the attention of those who are better off.

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