2019-09-162018-102019-09-162019-09https://ri.ucsal.br/handle/prefix/994This article discuss the right to the city as an ideological way of achieving citizenship and justice. The research has multidisciplinary perspective, which involves aspects based on alterity, anthropology, urbanism and human rights. The study aims to analyze the (im)possibility of (re)building a new city based on the recognition of the common good and the dignity of the human being. The purpose is also to demonstrate the importance of the sense of belonging, through social movements of insurgency in the search of the implementation of public policies. It also aims to point out the importance of the reciprocal responsibility of the State, civil society and individuals immersed in the illusion of a society of fetishist spectacle, product of the social reproduction system of capital, which transforms everything into merchandise. For this, the methodology was based on the review of national, foreign literature, and their respective concrete social and historical cases. The study brought as a conclusive analytical result that to transform a city of walls into a city of bridges requires the development of a vision of tolerance in a diverse and plural society. It will be demonstrated that citizenship is shaped as a self-constructed right in the peripheries in the absence of the State. Parallel to the labyrinthine entanglement of this plot, the guiding thread of hope seems to be the recognition that everything is a historical process, therefore changeable, and the awakening of a new conception of the world through an emancipatory adventure makes a new possible city.Acesso AbertoDireito à cidadeEstadoCidadaniaDireitos humanosAlteridadeRight to the cityStateCitizenshipHuman rightsAlterityArtigo de EventoCiências Sociais AplicadasDireito