The Right to the City in Modern Ukrainian Realities, Actors and the Ways of Implementation (Example of Lviv)

Abstract

In the article process of performance of the right to the city as a theoretic concept, taking specific examples of Lviv are analyzed. The two main modes of the right to the city are considered here. They are: the right to participation and the right to appropriation of the city space. In case of  right to appropriation the author observes the selected objects in Lviv which were supposed to lend themselves to modification (demolition, reconstruction), marks the forms or models of the community’s opposition to these changes as well as the result of the opposition. Speaking about the inclusion of Lviv residents in space-making processes (the right to participation), or the participation practices of the population, it is worth marking the appearance of various public initiatives, among which there are also initiatives of the work with city spaces. They are the initiatives of parks’ protection from building contrperformers and their transformation (by own efforts) into public spaces of good quality with further involvement of the authorities or business-cluster, the initiatives of making common values of self-organization and general skills in common actions, different kinds of projects on revitalization of public spaces and so on.The text also provides a brief overview of the relationships between possible agents of the right to the city.