The 2013 LACUNY Institute
Libraries, Information, and the Right to the City
April 5, 2013
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
In recent years movements of scholars and activists have advanced a concept known as “the right to the city.” As the noted geographer David Harvey puts it “the right to the city is far more than the individual liberty to access urban resources: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city.” Situated at the heart of a global metropolis the Library Association of the City University of New York is in an excellent position to initiate this dialogue.
