city, to use its space and share in its plunders. Appropriation entails the right to be present in, to experience and make use of the fullness of the city. The right to the city is grounded in the reality of present everyday life in the city and in a continuously shifting and contested vision of a future city that is impossible to identify but is actively imagined, struggled and strived for, by inhabitants individually as well as by collectives. The right to the city spread out to all individuals who inhabit the city and not only those whose presence there is legally recognised or tolerated, or to those who legally quality for rights protection.

The right to the city extend beyond individual’s liberty to access city resources; it entails the right to change ourselves by changing the city. For the poor to change themselves, in particular their socio-economic situation, they need to change the city. They city must be transformed fully to enable poor individuals to access all the benefits it offers. They must be allowed (not tolerated) to be in the city in order to access economic opportunities the city offers such as employment opportunities or entrepreneurship opportunities. The right to the city is set up in the reality of contemporary, everyday life in the city. This is tied up with the need to generate income, majority of city citizens provide for themselves as well as their families. Generating income enables them to provide basic necessities (such as clothes, food and shelter) to their families. The majority are (or comes from) working class. Therefore, the working class is the right to the city main agent. However, the right to the city can also be claimed by non-working-class malcontents and marginalised groups or certainly by anyone who partakes in the struggle over the city’s form and meaning. To the poor and marginalised the struggle the ‘form’ of the city entails the design and planning that promotes to access city space in order for them to be able to realise their socio-economic rights. The poor realise their socio-economic rights mainly by being employed (by capitalists) or by being informal traders in the city. The right to claim habitation, appropriation and participation in the city life, is embedded in the struggle among differe