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The Right to the City Mark Purcell Department of Urban Design & Planning University of Washington, USA
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The Right to the CityMark Purcell
Department of Urban Design & PlanningUniversity of Washington, USA
Puerta del Sol, Madrid
Syntagma Square, Athens
Que se vayan todos
No nos representan
“For a long time decisions have been made for us, without consulting us. We…have come to Syntagma Square… because we know that the solutions to our problems can only be provided by us. We call all residents of Athens…and all of society to fill the public squares and to take their lives into their own hands. In these public squares we will shape our claims and our demands together.”
Use rights of inhabitants
overProperty rights
of owners
Use value of urban space
overExchange value of
urban space
Two ApproachesLiberal-Democratic Approach
Lefebvre’s Approach
Liberal-Democratic Rights
Legal strategiesRights as ends
Addition to existing lists of rights
Guaranteed by the State
Liberal Democracy
Public/Private
Rights as protection of individual liberty
Elections, parties, laws, state institutions
Montreal Charter of Rights and ResponsibilitiesMexico City Charter for the Right to the City City Statute in BrazilRight to the City Alliance in USAEuropean Charter for Human Rights in the CityWorld Charter for the Right to the City
Lefebvre’s Right to the City
1901-1991
French Communist Party
Stalinism
Paris, 1968
Radical democracy beyond the state and beyond capitalism
New Contract of Citizenship
Right to information
Right to the city
Right to difference
Right to autogestion
AutogestionSelf-management
Contract is a point of departure for a renewal of political life
In which people become active and appropriate their own power
Dictatorship of the proletariat
Deepening of democracy
Withering away of the state and of capitalist social relations
Industrial city
Industrial City• Private property, exchange value • Separation, segregation, homogenization• Passive and isolated consumers• Habitat• Commodities, production, consumption• Economic growth• Oligarchy: managed by elites
The neoliberal cityThe Society of the Spectacle
Urban society
Urban Society• Inhabitants appropriate urban space, use value• Interaction, encounter, collective politics• Together-in-difference• L’inhabiter • Creation (poiesis)• Human development (free development of each…)• Democracy: managed by all inhabitants
Urban autogestion
Industrial City• Private property, exchange value • Separation, segregation, homogenization• Passive and isolated consumers• Habitat• Commodities, production, consumption• Economic growth• Oligarchy: managed by elites
The neoliberal cityThe Society of the Spectacle
Commonality and Difference
not-capitalist-consumers
not-state-subjects
Inhabitants/Users as:
Right to the city as a point of departure; opens a path toward urban society
A Practicable Utopia
Extrapolate a possible world from actual practices
It helps us see the possible in the actual
“Seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, and help them endure, give them space.”
--Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
The inferno of the living is not something that will be. If there is one, it is that which is already here, the inferno that we inhabit every day, that we create by being together. There are two ways to escape suffering it. The first is easy for most: accept the inferno and become such a complete part of it that you no longer know it is there. The second is risky and requires vigilance and continuous attention: seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, and help them endure, give them space. —Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities (1972), p. 164)
L'inferno dei viventi non è qualcosa che sarà; se ce n'è uno, è quello che è già qui, l'inferno che abitiamo tutti i giorni, che formiamo stando insieme. Due modi ci sono per non soffrirne. Il primo riesce facile a molti: accettare l'inferno e diventarne parte fino al punto di non vederlo più. Il secondo è rischioso ed esige attenzione e apprendimento continui: cercare e saper riconoscere chi e che cosa, in mezzo all'inferno, non è inferno, e farlo durare, e dargli spazio.
Italo Calvino, Le Città Invisibili, 1972
