Movimiento vecinal, urbanismo y participación en Valladolid (1970-1995): una perspectiva histórica sobre el “derecho a la ciudad”.

Social History and urban planning History combine in this text in order to contribute to the knowledge of the neighbourhood movement in Valladolid (Spain) in the period of its birth and greatest development (1970- 1995). The perspective adopted axes on the concept of the “right to the city”, coined by Henri Lefebvre in 1968, and focuses the study of the conflicts hold for neighbourhood organisations face to municipal governments in the process of conquest of participation ability in all kinds of decisions on the city. The most of the sources are the local daily press, but also archival and bibliographical documents. Three periods characterised by the general climate of relations between the neighbourhood movement and the City Council structure the content of the paper, separated by two turning points: the municipal elections of 1979 and a deep rupture in 1986. The analysis shows, in one hand, continuities and changes in the role played by the neighbourhood movement in Valladolid as a “stakeholder” (in the Lefebvrian sense of the term). In the other hand, it identifies some effective conditioning factors and limitations in the conquest of the right to the city.