ABSTRACT
The interdisciplinary article reflects sustainable strategies for minimizing urban health problems, clarified with the Covid-19 pandemic. The objective is to reflect on the right to the city from a complex perspective. It points out some urban problems, clarifies theoretical basis, limits and possibilities about urbanism with precepts and answers for a sustainable city and the role of law. It discusses the 'common' and the difficulty of individuals to act to minimize the effects of the pandemic in Brazil, exposes the unsustainability of the global urban model between inequality, informality and insecurity that propitiate the expansion of Covid-19. It reflects the aggravation of people's lives in the cities and the impacts of the planet according to the tragedy of the commons denounces. As a result, complexity highlights the responsibility for the collective, contrary to the actions of contemporary society that fragment the whole and block collective action. The concept of the 'common' analyzed from the biology of cognition and complexity, expands with the praxis of human beings to build a sense of community. The article method is deductive, based on general concepts to reach specific conclusions, using bibliographic, documentary technique and intrinsic experience.
Keywords:
Collective awareness; Limits of the right; Biology of cognition; Complex thinking; Sustainable city