ABSTRACT

The right to the city is like a cry and a demand. This right slowly meanders through the surprising detours of nostalgia and tourism, the return to the heart of the traditional city, and the call of existent or recently developed centralities . . . The right to the city cannot be conceived of as a single visiting right or as a return to traditional cit-ies. It can only be formulated as a transformed and renewed right to urban life.