Explanation
- A
1 only | | | | --- | --- | --- | |
1 only. It is not a settled UN-Habitat-monitored human right in the form statement 1 claims.
- B
3 only | | | |
3 only. Statement 2 also holds: reclaiming public space and participation.
- C
1 and 2 | | | |
1 and 2. Statement 1 fails.
- D
2 and 3 | | | | Ans) C | | |
2 and 3. Occupants’ claim on public space and participation, and a non-discrimination reading of the Right to the City. Not an agreed, UN-Habitat-policed human right as 1 puts it.
Summary. Official key is (d) 2 and 3. ‘Right to the City’ is a Lefebvre / urban-social idea about using and shaping urban space without discrimination. It is not a universally agreed human right that UN-Habitat scores country by country as statement 1 says.
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