Permanent Working Platform Co-creating the city – Right to the Democratic City

The resistance deployed by some cities and citizens communities against the Smart City model, based on surveillance and data centralization, shifts the concept of “right to the city” to the one of “right to the democratic city”. Citizen participation in urban planning processes, communications privacy, citizen deliberative processes, civic hacking movements for transparency, commoning data and direct democracy in urban environements expand the horizon of the “right to the democratic city”.