São Paulo is an emerging ‘global city’ of mas- sive physical proportions and huge differences. It’s a city in tension.The vigorous debates among government entities, the private sector, social activists, political parties and academics mirror inescapable socioeconomic tensions. Various in- terests and agendas wrestle for pre-eminence in a climate of revitalized democracy and deep in- terest in the limits and possibilities of citizenship and the ‘right to the city’1. However, as Lefebvre popularized the slogan: “ The right to the city is like a cry and a demand.The right to information, the rights to use of multiple services, the right of users to make known their ideas....” 2.This to- day its the only demand that the less privileged society believes and therefore they will fight for these principles until achieve a fair place, space and a reasonable life.
