ABSTRACT
This chapter attempts to excavate and recover the meaning of the phrase “the right to the city. Rather than assuming the orthodox Marxist position that would have us dismiss the notion of a “right” ’ as a mere ideologically based rhetorical device, it is argued here that Lefevbre is best understood as asserting that there is very much a right in the traditional analytic, “bourgeois” understanding of that notion, and that, further, it is a right not simply to the needs of subsistence, housing, and political voice, but a right to the city.
