Direito à cidade: relações entre o Direito do e o Direito ao desenvolvimento no caminho entre a sustentabilidade urbana e a Democracia econômica

This essay addresses the relationship between the Right to the City, the Economic Right of Development and the Human Right to Development. The theoretical framework of the Right to the City is assumed to result from a socioeconomic analysis of industrialization and urbanization processes, which, in turn, reflect economic options in the field of Right of Development (RoD). A primary issue is recognizing that measures of economic growth focused on linear economic monitoring, do not necessarily generate actions of socioeconomic development. The Human Right to Development (RtD) presupposes the notions of social and environmental sustainability and economic democracy as guiding elements of the developmental process viewed from a continued and articulate perspective. In this context, the Right to the City is of great relevance since it demands a simultaneous exercise of rights (of first, second and third dimension), with a special emphasis on the exercise of economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR) within the urban environment, with the purpose of implementing and accomplishing plural development (RoD and RtD combined). Finally, this essay analyzes São Paulo’s new strategic development plan as an attempt to jointly implement these rights.