The right to the city
The Struggle for Democracy in the Urban Public Realm
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6326786 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Purcell (0000-0002-1288-614X, University of Washington, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 311-327 |
| Publication date | 2013-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Policy & Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0305-5736 • E-ISSN: 1470-8442 |
| Publisher | Bristol University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1332/030557312x655639 |
| OpenAlex | W2326239864 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 53 |
This paper aims to contribute to contemporary debates on governance change in the local public realm by undertaking a close analysis of Henri Lefebvre’s concept of the right to the city. I argue that when it is fully appreciated, Lefebvre’s idea imagines a thoroughgoing transformation of the city as a political community. It involves a radical democratization of cities, which Lefebvre understands to mean an ongoing and collective struggle by urban inhabitants to manage the city for themselves, without the state and without capitalism
Capitalism · Corporate governance · Democracy · Democratization · Economics · Management · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Realm · Right to the city · Sociology · State (computer science · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Public Administration · Urban Planning and Governance
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Promoting socio-spatial and cognitive justice through critical pedagogies
The moral limits of autonomous democracy for planning theory
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A Lefebvrean right to unalienating leisure and citizenship
Urban governance and spatial transformation ambitions in Johannesburg
Good urban governance
The legal meaning of Lefebvre’s the right to the city
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Against the Colonization of Urban Development
The Spatial‐Political Outcome of Urban Development Conflicts
The urban commons
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The hidden boundaries of public space
How accessible are neighbourhood open spaces? Control of public space and its management in contemporary cities
A genealogy of the five schools of justice in planning thought
Acting on media technologies and infrastructures
From the Right to Mobility to the Right to the Mobile City
Walking city streets
Time and fragmentary politics in Cairo
Extra/Ordinary moments
Publics and their Problems
Alternative organizing in times of crisis
Can urban populism democratize the city? The Tel Aviv-Jaffa 2008 municipal elections and their aftermath
The End of the Right to the City
Emancipatory Urban Citizenship Regimes in Postpandemic Catalonia, Scotland, and Wales
Understanding megacities. An argument on the role of democratic ideals
Heritage, values and gentrification
Geographies of land use
When social movements collaborate with the state towards the right to the city
Self-Organization and Urban Development
The Right to Infrastructure
Institutionalization and Depoliticization of the Right to the City
Autoconstrução Redux
Rethinking the Migrant Position
Urban Precarity and Home
Auto-Construction Redux
| Unique citing works | 53 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,42 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 52 |