Explanation 

 

RIGHT TO THE CITY IN THE CABANYAL (VALENCIA): AN URBAN REGENERATION STUDY FROM A TERRITORIAL SOCIAL  JUSTICE APPROACH.

 

The focus of this study lies on the Right to the City (Harvey, 2012), as the concept which can change the way of managing life in the contemporary cities. For Harvey, encouraging this right means starting a colective power to redirect the distribution of the urbanization process surplus, breaking down with the natural’s market flow, and guiding the relationships of institutions and citizenship to a higher distributive justice that looks for a social benefit. What Harvey calls Territorial Social Justice. (Harvey, 1973)

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In 2015, after the change of government in the city of Valencia, a Cabanyal’s regeneration leaded to encrease the citizens quality of life was promoted, protecting the neighborhood from the speculative and market-free activities (Valencia Plaza, 08.07.2017 and Levante, 06.05.2018); What would suppose, according to Harvey’s theory, to initiate processes which could strengthen the RtC of their inhabitants.

 

If what we want to set up is ways to improve the inhabitants RtC of our cities, according to the theoretical frame done, institutions and citizenship should be working together stopping the current expansive economic moment and ensuring the fairy reinvestment of the surplus.

 

Te current case of the Cabanyal, with an organized society and a government willing to innovate, could be a proper place to essay new and creative ways of RtC by managing proposals that let institutions and citizens work together for the implementation of TSJ.