The right to the city

Shortly after profitable the 2015 elections, Ada Colau grabbed headlines in nearly all of the media that launched to supply a extra detailed biography of who can be the subsequent mayor of the town, below the shared description of "activist of the Platform of Affected by the Mortgage".

Shortly after profitable the 2015 elections, Ada Colau grabbed headlines in nearly all of the media that launched to supply a extra detailed biography of who can be the subsequent mayor of the town, below the shared description of "activist of the Platform of Affected by the Mortgage".

Since then, many have centered on the trajectory of the mayoress with the correct to housing. However what few observed was the element that Colau herself introduced in her first biography on the Metropolis Council's web site: "Specialised in metropolis regulation".

That expression, which for some might appear superfluous, was in no way gratuitous, however relatively prescient coming from somebody who spent his college years within the School of Philosophy.

What is named the correct to the town ( le droit à la ville ) is a time period coined in 1968 by the French thinker Henri Lefebvre, thought of one of many mental fathers of Could 1968. For Lefebvre, the town has been taken over by pursuits of capital and, confronted with the privatization of city areas and the mercantile use of the town, it's essential to get well it in order that the citizen is as soon as once more the principle factor.

This understanding will in all probability assist the reader to raised perceive, now with a sure perspective, what has been the imaginative and prescient of the town that has impressed the mayoress these final eight years; to the purpose that Yolanda Díaz, at the moment vice-president of the central authorities and already a candidate for the subsequent basic elections, congratulated Barcelona not so way back "for being a world instance in favor of the correct to the town" (31/X/2021).

Town mannequin will doubtless proceed to be debated relying on the political prism by way of which it's seen. However what there isn't a doubt about, in line with the Elecciones Barcelona interactive, is the crucial want to enhance safety, cleanliness and entry to housing, the three foremost issues in Barcelona in line with the most recent municipal barometer.