The Right to the City x Human Rights

brief approaches to the urban question

Abstract

This article aims to conceptualize the right to the city and elucidate its trajectory in Brazil from a human rights perspective. To this end, we will address the concepts of human rights, the right to the city and urbanization, with the aim of demonstrating the importance of access to the city for vulnerable populations in terms of their rights, services, leisure and culture. At the same time, we cannot fail to highlight the process of unequal urbanization and its exclusionary structure, especially for the poor, who are marginalized by the logic of the commodity city.