Overview

The right to the city – the freedom for all to occupy, govern, change, and enjoy the city and access its resources – is fundamental to genuinely inclusive democracy. Claiming the Right to the City critically explores attempts to redefine Brazil's planning model based on social justice. The Brazilian experience of profound urban challenges over the past forty years reveals the division between a theoretically acknowledged right to the city and the reality of urban policy, planning, and practice, within the context of economic inequality and unequal rights. Abigail Friendly highlights the role of urban social movements and participatory planning, and proposes an approach uniting institutions with bottom-up engagement of citizens, communities, and grassroots organizations to drive urban transformations. Claiming the Right to the City provides insight into how the right to the city is localized in practice, offering lessons that are broadly applicable to cities around the world.

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""Claiming the Right to the City presents a well-crafted review of progressive urban policies in Brazil since the 1980s, their achievements, and shortcomings. The case study of Niteroi is in itself a major contribution to the field.""-- ""Fernando Luiz Lara, Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania"" ""Abigail Friendly is a leading figure in the study of Brazil, and, more broadly, for the urban affairs field. With Claiming the Right to the City, she continues to chart an important course in scholarly debates with this engaging, sophisticated, and cogent analysis of the right to the city in one of the world's most dynamic countries, offering lessons from the Global South to advance equality for all people.""-- ""Thomas J. Vicino, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University""

Author Information

Abigail Friendly is an urban planner and specialist on urban policy in Brazil. She is an assistant professor in the Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning at Utrecht University in the Netherlands.

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