ABSTRACT
The New Urban Agenda (NUA) provides a wide variety of arguments and principles for different stable legal frameworks related to planning and land use law, but it does not offer a clear structure about the way property rights are linked and interrelated. The NUA introduces a strong relationship among property rights, the use of land, and direction for governments to responsibly lead with legal and planning tools, and it is taking a step forward with respect to land use regulations, in terms of integrating an ecological dimension. The chapter discusses the right to the city in an inclusive way, as a series of physical features, implicitly introducing the elements of the second concentric circle, the right to urbanize, by establishing the principle of non-discrimination in the creation of cities. The NUA reflects the content of the so-called right to the city, though the NUA defends this right in a disorderly manner and without an express and inherent assumption of it.
