Urban Citizenship

Abstract

Urban citizenship is a relatively new and critical concept aimed at challenging the traditional, nationally related, “top‐down” concept of citizenship. It proposes perceiving the citizen, inhabitant, and/or dweller as eligible to possess their rights to the city, the right to appropriate, and the right to participate. This Lefebvrian notion has been challenged by the reality of the 2011 protest movements and recently by the waves of refugees arriving in Europe from Syria, Afghanistan, and other countries.