City policies: planning the city to claim for the human dimension

Abstract

City policies must be understood as those that address issues related with a specific area or territory, the city or a part of it. Nevertheless, if these are understood within the frame of having a right to the city, they become policies that go beyond the idea of the city as a functional or territorial problem. They, hence, become policies that serve a complex reality, that adress territorial and functional as well as ethical and human issues. Therefore, city policies must point out towards this human creation reality, which is complex and is thus always in construction.