The Right to the City: conceptual transformations and urban struggles

O Direito à Cidade: transformações conceituais e lutas urbanas

Abstract

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

Keywords:
Right to the city; History of a concept; Henri Lefebvre; Social movements