From the guest editor

Abstract

Cities, especially in developing countries, have variously been described as places of hope and despair, places of innovation and strange encounters, and places of economic prosperity and acute poverty. These expressions engender the challenges and advantages inherent in the cities for its different classes of dwellers. Some people view cities basically as acutely unequal in terms of the spread of resources and opportunities. Infrastructure is not laterally and symmetrically evenly distributed within city spaces. This is so because of various issues and challenges ranging from discrimination, gender inequality, class segregation, political interference and manipulation, population distribution and several other challenges inherent in the city space. Given the afore-mentioned background, SACPLAN together with Town and Regional Planning Journal has commissioned this special call for manuscripts from academics, scientists, and practitioners across the world in city-oriented research to address the subject of access to the city by all people, irrespective of their age, class, race, gender, and any other spatial consideration for a Special Journal Issue titled: Cities for All / The right to the City. This issue accepted the manuscripts from the following authors.