El derecho a la ciudad como alternativa pluralista a la crisis urbana: el caso referencia de Barcelona

Abstract

In the general context of crisis, this work opens a space for rethinking new urban forms and legal instruments. Envisages demonstrating the possibilities of dialogue between Law and Urbanism for the construction of a legal discourse sensitized by the reality and nurtured by other knowledge areas as a way to achieve social efficiency of the law within the meaning of the right to city. Giving new meaning to normative constructions and their effectiveness is one possible alternative witnessed on the great contradictions of this century. The study is developed from an interdisciplinary perspective between Law and Urbanism. The right to the city is presented as the appropriate analytical category since it allows for building a counterpoint between the consensus of city and the current legal approach. Barcelona and its coastal zone have been chosen as a reference case as it features important elements of analysis: “Barcelona model”, Olympic city and its current context of capitalist city of a neoliberal pattern that allows for reflecting about the extremely actual present urban phenomena.