Abstract
This article reflects on two related issues: the centrality of private property in the production of space and the dialogue between this centrality and the issues raised by the present dossier (the “right to the city”, the “contemporary tensions” and the “utopian horizons”). This dialogue is established through the conception of violence as the backbone of capitalist reproduction. It analyzes the centrality of private property from the institution of its forms and its legal titles as phantasmagoria, shedding light on urbanization and its forms of expropriation which prohibit the realization of the right to the city, the urban revolution and the emergence of the becoming of urban society.
Keywords:
Private property; Violence; Expropriation; Right to the city