The Right to the City: Constitutional Matters

According to statistics for 2019, in Russia the urban population is about 109 million people. The government has begun to pay more attention to the problem of urban development. In the annual Presidential Address to the Federal Assembly was noted that “development of cities is the driving force for the whole country”. For this aim it is necessary to update the urban environment, to create comfortable living conditions for a person, to take into account his or her opinion in determining the vectors of the city development. In connection with the above, we suggest to focus on the philosophical concept of the right to the city, which is interpreted as gaining the right of access to the benefits of the city and the right to participate directly in changing the urban environment. From our point of view, it is necessary to transfer the philosophical concept to the legal sphere and research the constitutional problems in urban-life. The research is divided into four chapters. The first chapter is focused on philosophical and historical aspect of the right to the city. Moreover, the analysis of the international distribution of the concept of the right to the city is submitted in this chapter. The second part of the research is concentrated attention on the constitutional characteristic of the right to the city. The author characterized the right to the city as a complex right. This argument is confirmed by incorporating several constitutional rights. The third chapter of the work of scholarship is connected with the discussion about the subjects of the right to the city. Finally, the fourth chapter is focused on the remedy of the right to the city. The significant attention is payed on the procedural protection, in particularly on the Constitutional Court’s practice.