Das Recht auf Stadt

In recent years, a "right to the city" has been demanded everywhere - by social protest movements against gentrification worldwide. NGOs and UN organizations equally advocate for it. Critical urban researchers like David Harvey, Peter Marcuse, and Niels Boeing refer to Henri Lefebvre in their radical social critique, who developed the concept in 1968 - in a text that is now available for the first time in German translation. The "right to the city" is more than the individual freedom to access urban resources. It is the right to a renewed urban life. In light of the social problems in the desolate high-rise suburbs and other consequences of rapid urban growth after World War II, Lefebvre already noted in the 1960s that the process of urbanization is accompanied by a loss of the city as a place of.