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The aim of this article is to analyse the concept of the right to the city in the vulnerable areas of Madrid, starting by proposing a way of operationalising and applying it to the city. This is justified by the fact that Madrid is one of the most segregated capitals in Europe. Qualitative methodology is used to measure the inclusion-exclusion of this type of areas in relation to the rest of the urban areas. Four discursive axes have been identified as a foundation for the qualitative analysis, which serve to outline the weaknesses and strengths of this type of neighbourhood. The final idea is the articulation of an identity discourse that enables the appropriation of the urban to exercise the right to the city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Current article shows how postmodernity and its human consequences affect the space environment. The consequence of such a perception is space's chaotic growth which affects the citizens' right to the city. Capitalist production and globalization and how both promote spatial transformation are discussed. The influence of production of the capital within the urbanization process and in social and spatial segregation are analyzed, whilst the role of the State and of society as guarantees for the right of the city is underlined. Results show that the joined activities of the State and society is essential for the effective right to the city and for the decrease of social and spatial inequalities in the cities. The hypothetical and deductive method was employed foregrounded on Brazilian and foreign references. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article aims to investigate whether the term "right to the city" can be considered as a hegemonic articulation in the city of São Paulo and the analysis is performed using the Political Theory of Discourse (PTD), developed by Laclau and Mouffe, as a theoretical lens. We traced through history the emergence of the term and the groups that relate to the notion it portrays, having June 2013 demonstrations in Brazil as a starting point: an event that destabilized the sense attributed to a previous hegemony, the city of capital. The local government's response to those demonstrations was the implementation of the Coordination for the Promotion of the Right to the City, with the intention of establishing the term as a nodal point. By analyzing the discourse of the different groups, we conclude that the right to the city is a counter-hegemony that has an antagonistic relationship with the current hegemony. The main contribution of this article is to identify and analyze the different meanings attributed to the term 'right to the city' in São Paulo and how the mapped actors discursively interact to propose new practices for production of urban space. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is based on understanding public space as territorial linkage, establishes a method for its diagnosis and for the development of a territorial strategy that identifies intervention projects geared towards urban renewal in the urban community of Santa Margarita, in the city of Guadalajara, México. This research concludes that this method can be applied to understand the territorial and social condition of public spaces and propose them as centralities and axis of urban development planning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The spatial processes deployed by the 15-M movement in Spain include elements of social change that exceed the limits of conventional politics. Located at a liminal level, these processes operate in the often unnoticed realm of the micropolitics of urban everyday life and the regimes of place that regulate it, providing new criteria for understanding sociospatial and urban phenomena. This article shows how public space, its representations and the spatialities associated with them have served as a support for, have determined and, ultimately, have been reshaped and transformed by the Spanish "indignados" (outraged), in particular in the city and the metropolitan area of Madrid. Drawing on a series of theoretical approaches to the articulation of recent revolts, the deployment of a prefigurative politics and the occupation of public space, I will give an experience-based account of the spatial constitution and effects of these connections in and around Madrid's Puerta del Sol. As a whole, the indignados' occupations and actions provide urban theory with conceptual and practical tools to imagine alternative forms of collective commitment in the production of spaces of hope for social progress and generalized self-management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]