IIED's video: Co-creating pathways to urban equality in a time of crisis

Over the past three decades inequality in cities has continued to rise. Given the rapidly growing proportion of the world’s population living in cities, shaping pathways to urban equality is one of the most urgent priorities of our time. This online event in October 2022 explored a new wave of ‘pathways’ to urban equality co-constructed by active groups across Asia, Latin America and Africa that have been operating in distinct and diverse ways to advance the journey towards just urban futures. Part of the IIED Debates series, organised by the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), the event brought together contributors to the latest issue of the Environment and Urbanization (E&U) journal which has been developed in partnership with the KNOW programme. The authors presented their experiences of building pathways to urban equality through the co-production of urban services in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, planning education in India and Tanzania, and social mobilisations inside favela settlements in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The speakers: 0:00 Introduction 0:44 Alexandre Apsan Frediani (moderator), principal researcher at IIED specialising in issues around human development in cities of the global South 7:34 Thaisa Comelli, researcher at the UCL Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction, working at Tomorrow’s Cities – a research hub whose mission is to reduce disaster risk for marginalised groups in global South cities 14:00 Joseph Mustapha Macarthy, urban research expert and a well-established scholar in urban development and planning in Sierra Leone 20:59 Neha Sami, associate dean for the School of Environment and Sustainability and senior lead – academics and research at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements 25:11 Caren Levy, professor of transformative urban planning at the University College London's Development Planning Unit The panel shared reflections on the actions undertaken by communities, professionals, local authorities and civil society groups to address structural injustices and debate key questions including: how are communities and networks organising to challenge structural injustices via ‘pathways’? What are the fragilities of these pathways, their contradictions, and challenges? And how can we maintain the momentum of pathways within the present context of acute crisis? More information: https://www.iied.org/co-creating-pathways-urban-equality-time-crisis