Emerging urban rights

Abstract

Emerging urban rights are seen as a response to the current crisis in cities. The world has ceased to be rural and is now urban. The prevailing urban model is predatory and inhumane. The current covid-19 crisis reveals several systemic problems in the city. Traditional human rights do not respond to the urban emergency on the streets. Most citizens live in informal neighborhoods, without water, without gas service, without basic sanitation, without adequate infrastructure, without electricity. They live in overcrowded spaces, in a city that does not guarantee urban rights. In this way, a new generation of rights is demanded in the city. New social collectives or citizenships in emergency need that the city has some basic minimums that allow dignifying urban environments. In this sense, it may be a solution to apply the thesis of emerging rights to rights in the urban context. Just as new categories have been created, such as ecological rights, solidarity rights, republican rights..., it is proposed to raise emerging urban rights as a category. This review article is a contribution in that area.