Struggling for new urban futures: Right(s) to a transformed city, to another society

Lefebvre proposed the right to the city, like a cry and a demand but as a transformed and renewed right to urban life in terms of the growth and survival of capitalism. He proposes this right as a horizon for the right to oeuvre and appropriation, the right to autogestion and to the priority of the use value over the exchange value, paving another way for defining another type of citizen. The right to the city is discussed, used and sometimes contested academically and as well as in the urban struggles. The paper aims to elaborate these current ideas and conceptual debates on the right to the city and assess the recent practice/use as a slogan by the groups involved in urban social movements against demolition of houses in different neighborhoods of Istanbul especially since June 2010 in the framework of what Marcelo Lopes de Souza discussed and questioned: 'Which right to which city?'. He underlined the right to the city as the core of entire sociopolitical project but fashionable these days, the more marked by the trivialisation and corruption. The paper aims to discuss theoretically and practically the radical core of the right as an inspiring, unifying claim for autogestion for the conquest of human, urban and social transformation as well as the possibility of a radical change for social justice in a just and free society which isn't be reducible to the right to better housing as de Souza asserted.