ABSTRACT
Henri Lefebvre’s notion of the right to the city has been one of the great rallying cries of urban protestors across the globe over the last fifty years yet it has hardly been evoked in the aftermath of the Grenfell fire in London in June 2017. One problem is that Lefebvre’s conception of this right does not address the amplified demand for the right for safe housing, for protections to be guaranteed by the state and/or relevant bureaucratic bodies. This chapter outlines some of the ways that the right to the city may be reimagined in light of this.
