Spaces of the right to the city and the Philosophy of Law

Abstract

Henri Lefebvre, in The Right to the City, stated that the city since Classical Age was a special object for philosophical thought: philosophy itself was born in the city. Another issue, he emphasized, would be to think of a right to the city, as a right to transformed, renewed urban life, an emerging right that had not yet entered into the formalized codes. David Harvey, among other authors, later discussed this concept, created just before May 1968 and used by various social movements from the late 1960s to the present day, including in Brazil. However, these authors did not exactly articulate this right with the philosophy of Law. The article aims to point out some possibilities of this articulation, in the light of the movements related to urban reform and housing law in Brazil, and the international process of creation of this right.