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This article highlights the issues of urban renewal in major Algerian cities, through a case study in the precarious district of El M'Haffeur in Annaba, a city in eastern Algeria. This paper confronts the search for territorial equity, through requalification of marginalized spaces, with the realities of a gentrification process that occurs on pericentral spaces according to market opportunities. The article demonstrates that the device for the reduction of precarious housing looks like a legitimizing tool to free up land coveted by private real estate developers who are the main actors in this gentrification. The evicted inhabitants, whose words are recorded and analyzed in this article, express a strong feeling of injustice finding themselves forced to give up for their right to housing and against their right to the city.

A University Outreach project provided tourist experiences for special needs students/staff of Fluminense Federal University. This article is the result of research into how the tours influenced the daily life of the people who participated in them. It is an exploratory qualitative study based on semi-structured interviews with the tourists who visited some tourist spots. The relevance of the study is its demonstration that access to tourism can bring physical, mental and emotional benefits, such as different perceptions of places visited previously, changes in habits, and the positive possibility of contemplative experiences affording relief from everyday problems. The results show that access to the different tourist attractions and cultural facilities offered different contributions and perspectives. Subject to the stress of academic routine, the practice of touristic leisure helps them escape from their emotional/physical exhaustion while improving their sense of belonging, in relation to the university and the places visited.

In Quito, the model of the Andean colonial city - based on the spatial concretion of a hierarchical and exclusive social structure - entered in crisis in the 80s of the 20th century. In this period, previously marginalized afro-descendant and indigenous groups start to participate in the processes of land occupation and in construction of new peripheral neighborhoods. Using stories of families from the northwest of Quito, this article explore the struggles for land and education, two elements that subaltern groups have claimed to be include, claiming their right to the city.

Le strade della Parigi del XIX secolo, definita non a caso da Walter Benjamin la capitale della modernità, sono lo scenario entro il quale compare la figura del flâneur. Camminatore riflessivo che si mescola con la folla della città, senza mai confondersi con essa, è colui che legge con il suo sguardo e il suo passo lento, i segni che proprio la modernità lascia nello spazio urbano e rende quei segni storia narrabile. È uno sguardo soggettivo, ma reso significativo dalla cultura che lo sostiene e che diviene uno strumento formidabile per dare forma a un cambiamento che comincia a scriversi nella città. Lo sguardo del flâneur, al pari della città che attraversa, è maschile. Quelle stesse strade e quegli spazi pubblici, che sono oggetto privilegiato delle sue passeggiate e delle sue osservazioni, sono in realtà precluse alle donne, ancora relegate, anche nella ville lumiere, agli spazi domestici o, al più, a quelli del consumo. In questo scenario compare una figura contraddittoria, la flâneuse, per molti personaggio solamente letterario, per altri solamente consumatrice, per molte presenza pubblica fondamentale capace di avviare un percorso difficile quanto importante di rivendicazione del protagonismo urbano femminile. Camminatrice solitaria, capace di uno sguardo diverso sulla città, a volte più intimista, a volte intrinsecamente politico, quasi mai semplice doppio al femminile del flâneur. La flânuserie declinata anche al femminile è parte di un percorso realizzato dalle donne per conquistare il diritto allo spazio pubblico, ben al di là di quello del consumo, e a narrare la città dal proprio punto di vista. Se il camminare appare oggi più ancora che in passato un gesto rivoluzionario che sovverte i tempi della modernità e del tempo attuale che ne ha radicalizzato l’accelerazione costante, quello delle donne introduce un elemento di rottura in più. In una città veloce e ancora fortemente declinata al maschile, il passo lento della donna è la provocazione assoluta. Lo sguardo femminile sulla città è lo sguardo obliquo che costringe a cambiare la prospettiva, che rende evidenti i limiti resi invisibili dalla quotidianità e dalla routine e rivendica il diritto di vedere la città altra e di raccontarla.

The “right to the city” theorized at the end of the 1960s by Henri Lefebvre and ‘positivized’ in some international and European Charters is now intertwined with the theme of regeneration and reuse of certain fundamental goods for the needs of community. A need today increasingly perceived as necessary and urgent by citizens, associations and movements that share with local institutions their management through innovative administrative tools that find a direct foundation in the Italian Constitution. Due to the sectoral nature of urban policies, however, there is a risk of losing sight of the sense of territory in its dynamic unity. Through the narration of a story- that involved a municipal public park located in the centre of Caserta and called ‘Villa Giaquinto’, we will try to show how, despite this area has also been invested by an experience of ‘shared administration’ like many others in Italy, through a gradual growth and maturation by engagement of various subjects that are part of the social and economic fabric of the city, we can now say that part of the citizens of Caserta have succeeded in rebuilding (albeit in an embryonic form) a small agora, and have promoted a wide network that is now a potential ‘point of irradiation’ for the entire city area.

The process of the increasing number of elderly people is linked with the important change of social representations of third age. Elderly people forcefully claim a new urban protagonism. They look at the city to satisfy not only their needs but also the conditions for their existential planning.

The 2016 earthquake, which hit Marche, Umbria, Lazio and Abruzzi, led to an irreversible transformation of innumerable dimensions of space and to the fragmentation of pre-existing relationships within the communities residing in most of the affected territories . In areas close to the epicentre, the level of damage of the urban social context and the subsequent, almost total removal of population determined a level of vulnerability that requires systematic monitoring tools. About two years after the earthquake, no measures to support the population have been implemented in order to facilitate reintegration into social, territorial and economic contexts deeply changed by the earthquake, the demolition, the safety measures and the construction of ‘new residential’ areas, the so-called SAE areas (where SAE or Emergency housing modules are clustered). The SAEBiblioPoint project arose about two years after the creation of FuturoInfinito to implement the social aims of the project: in particular to promote social interaction, monitor the conditions of relationships in population, re-map their location and the spaces available within the City of Visso and, finally, offer proximity services by strengthening and reconnecting informal social networks.

The process of the increasing number of elderly people is linked with the important change of social representations of third age. Elderly people forcefully claim a new urban protagonism. They look at the city to satisfy not only their needs but also the conditions for their existential planning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper addresses the mobilization in the global South of the notion of the right to the city, reflecting the debates on the “southern turn”. It analyses the complexities surrounding the incorporation, in the post-colonial contexts, of certain elements of the debates, posed on the one hand by the neo-Marxist authors of the North who have reactivated the notion since the early 2000s, and on the other hand in developmental approaches. It re-explores the contribution of so-called southern cities, specifically those in sub-Saharan Africa, to the debates on the right to the city and the place they occupy in it. The aim is to shed light on the way in which contemporary discussions on the right to the city has been elaborated in order to question the limits of the North/South analytical nexus, whether the latter aims to denounce the theoretical domination of the North over the South or whether it reinforces the specificity of the South and the need for theorization by the South.

This article aims to discuss how the carnival of Rio de Janeiro, more specifically, the carnival of street blocks, which occupies much of the city, can be seen as an exercise of the right to the city. At the same time carnival brings together thousands of people in the streets, it also brings with it dirt, it affects traffic and spreads a kind of chaos in the city. On the other hand, it also brings benefits such as the increase of local trade, the expansion of popular culture, and leisure to the revelers. Thus, discussing the Rio carnival is an essential topic to understand the right of access to the city. The carnival in the streets of Rio de Janeiro is an eminently popular carnival. It is a free party; the municipality prohibits the creation of place holders or cabins on city streets. Therefore, in theory, anyone can join the crowd. With sponsored blocks and other ones kept by revelers themselves, the carnival changes the city. The street is no longer just a pathway – it is now occupied by people. The noise of vehicles is replaced by music, traditional in most cases. So, even bringing chaos along with the music and culture, the experience of the carnival, as a traditional Brazilian popular party, clearly becomes a public practice of the right to the city, since the gentrification process is momentarily neutralized and the government power intervention has to be limited – never to prohibit, but only to facilitate and enable a peaceful coexistence.

This rewiev compares Henri Lefebvre idea concerning the “right to the city” with David Harvey‟s one. This comparison, rather than an academic practice, implies a political connotation. Both Lefebvre and Harvey consolidate this right in the context of the theoretical and practical struggle against capitalist urbanization that should be undertaken and, what is more, against the productive model that capitalist encourages to perpetuate. This article on two radical thinkers of the urban environment expects the right to the city not just to remain in “an alibi, a pious wish or fiction” and it reveals contributions and contradictions in both authors thought regarding the basic question on the transition from critic to action: What to do? Henri Lefebvre thought presents a first period in which working-class is interpreted as the spearhead of a socialist revolution that implied a collective re-appropriation of the urban space; and a second one in which he is content with a “citizen” view of social change. Harvey, for his part, defines the right to the city as the peak of a real urban civilization, which is radically different from the capitalist productive model, but, as far as the methods to reach it are concerned, he re-invoke “citizen movements”, “spaces of hope” and “alternatives sites” like squats. The author of this article claims that the current return of a critical and radical thought on the urban is being spread only in academic areas and defends that we should start to think about how to transit from theory to execution.

El presente texto aborda una reflexión en torno a las formas de constitución de los sujetos juveniles y sus modos de actuación por el derecho a la ciudad, en un contexto de violencia urbana en una zonas periférica de Bogotá - Colombia, conocida como Ciudad Bolívar. Hace parte de los avances de una tesis doctoral, en el marco del macroproyecto de investigación Memorias de la violencia y constitución ético-política de jóvenes y maestros en Colombia, llevado a cabo en la Universidad Pedagógica Nacional en el que participan estudiantes de Maestría y Doctorado.This paper reflects on the constitution of young subjects and how they act in order to have access to the right to the city in the context of urban violence in the peripheral areas of Bogotá, Colombia, in Ciudad Bolívar. This study consists in an step ahead of a doctoral thesis within the framework of the macro research project "Memorias de la violencia y constitución ético-política de jóvenes y maestros en Colombia" ("Memories of Violence and Ethical Political Constitution of Youngsters and Teachers in Colombia") developed by 'Universidad Pedagógica Nacional' with the participation of graduate students from Ph.D and Master´s Degree programs.