We would like to point out about ownership and the right to the city ; Apuntes sobre la apropiación y el derecho a la ciudad
In this article we try to come back to reflections circulating through the group that is part of the University Extension Programme "The Right to have Rights" (UNLP). For these days, we are asking us about the possibilities for action by popular organisations to advance the fight for the law of the city. That question inevitably leads us to adopt a broad definition of that concept and put it in context or, rather, to place it in different contexts, namely: the theoretical discussion on human rights and the definition of the right to the city itself; reflections on the ways in which these rights are required, as opportunities in popular struggles, and how to exercise them; and the context of analysing the forms of production and ownership of the city today and historically, in order to enrich possible ways of fighting. We start this article by looking at how metropolitan urban area1 in our country, which has been released to market forces, has been built up, and we wonder whether the recovery of the economy that Argentina has experienced since the exit from convertibility has led to more and better possibilities of access to the city. We look at the mechanisms of collective production and differential ownership of the city, to see whether this has contributed some further elements to the understanding of the problem and the content of the popular demands. In the process of giving consensual content to the concept of the law of the City, we have found ourselves in discussions about the potential of fighting by means of requiring compliance with the obligations assumed by the State following the signing of international agreements and their inclusion in the National Constitution. We believe that something can be taken forward in this direction, provided that not all hopes are met there alone: the city's production and ownership is in line with the logic of the capital and attempts to enforce rights will never go beyond it if there is no impact on it. The debate on the law of the city necessarily involves rethinking ...