A new legal urban paradigm to guarantee the human rights of elderly in cities

Pablo Aguilar Gonzalez

[President and Chairperson of CJUR International Association of Urbanistic] 

"A new legal urban paradigm to guarantee the human rights of elderly in cities" 

We are living a moment of urban crisis paradigm with a dangerous menace for the elder people in cities:

.

.

.

Precisely, the 95% of explosive virus spread in cities and metropolitan areas was facilitated because of the spatial configuration of our "compact, dense, vertical and dynamic" cities, and the elderly was not only a forgotten group but also a sector that was directly impacted by violating their human rights with the following combination: the urban planning with no vision of guaranteeing their rights and a mortal virus spreading in all public and private spaces.

So, we need to make some reflections about this in the session.