A study of the role of the right to the city theory in producing and reproducing urban space

Today in the literature of urbanity, the theory of the right to the city and how it can be achieved and applied in cities have received a lot of attention as one of the necessities of urban life and citizenship rights. Over the past decade, the right to the city has become one of the controversial and questionable concepts in urban studies. In different urban societies at national and global levels, the right to the city has been frequently referred and upheld in the form of rules and various charters as one of the living necessities and citizenship rights in a modern city. Given that up to now, despite numerous investigations in regard to the concept of civil rights, the concept of the right to the city and its place in the society as a ‘right” and living necessity in a city have received little attention and foundations for achieving it are not provided, we in this article introduce and analyze the theory of the right to the city and how to achieve it in the process of producing and reproducing space in city using a descriptive-analytical method, and eventually touch on charters and rules passed as to the right to the city at global levels based on some countries in order to get acquainted with and benefit from global experiences.