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List of contributors

Editors’ preface

1 Introduction: the promise and challenges of human rights cities

Part I Actors and their shifting capacities

2 Cities, human rights and accountability: the United States experience

3 Making human rights the talk of the town: civil society and human rights cities, a case study of the Netherlands

4 Human rights at a local level: the Montreal experience

5 From principles to practice: the role of US mayors in advancing human rights

Part II Renegotiating rights in the urban space

6 Human rights in the city and the right to the city: two different paradigms confronting urbanisation

7 Defying the demand to `go home': from human rights cities to the urbanisation of human rights

8 Contested advocacy: negotiating between rights and reciprocity in Nima and Maamobi, Ghana

9 The human right to water in the city context: insights from domestic litigation

Part III Implementing human rights cities

10 Human rights practice and the city: a case study of York (UK)

11 Human rights and the city: obligations, commitments and opportunities. Do human rights cities make a difference for citizens and authorities? Two cases studies on the freedom of expression

12 The right to the city in Mexico City: the Charter

13 In a state of becoming a human rights city: the case of Eugene, Oregon

Part IV Conclusions

14 Human rights cities: challenges and possibilities

15 Towards a sociology of the human rights city: focusing on practice

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