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The Right to the City: the Trajectory of a Concept

ABSTRACT

This article presents a conceptual trajectory of the right to the city. The reconstruction of the concept’s genesis and development is based on the relation between the history of ideas and the history of the social struggles in order to show that the variety of meanings addressed to the right to the city today is crucial to its social and theoretical relevance.

KEYWORDS:
right to the city; trajectory of a concept; Henri Lefebvre; social movements

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