Brazil’s City Statute enshrines the “right to the city” and the “social function of property” in its constitution. Brazilian scholars, however, identify barriers to achieving the law’s agenda. Broader debates regarding the right to the city suggest the concept has been overextended beyond meaning, and that formalization of the right to the city betrays its radical Lefebvrian roots. This article is based on fieldwork conducted in Rio de Janeiro when widespread forced evictions were being carried out prior to the city’s hosting of the 2016 Summer Olympics. Based on observations within eleven housing occupations, and sixty interviews with participants, leaders of social movement organizations, and local politicians, the article argues that the “constitutionalization” of the right to the city and the social function of property formed the basis for the politicization of dispossessed urban residents. The social function of property was a particularly salient concept for capturing the injustice of the planned relocation of the displaced poor to the urban periphery, while countless buildings sat underutilized in the city center.

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从上到下微调“里约热内卢的权利”：奥运会前里约热内卢的城市规约

巴西的《城市规约》在其宪法中规定了“城市权”和“财产的社会功能”。然而，巴西学者发现了实现法律议程的障碍。关于城市权的更广泛的辩论表明，这个概念已经超出了意义，城市权的形式化背叛了其激进的列斐伏尔根源。本文基于在里约热内卢举办 2016 年夏季奥运会之前在里约热内卢进行的实地调查。根据对 11 种住房职业的观察，以及对参与者、社会运动组织领导人和当地政治家的 60 次访谈，文章认为，城市权的“宪政化”和财产的社会功能构成了城市被剥夺者政治化的基础。财产的社会功能是一个特别突出的概念，用于捕捉计划中将流离失所的穷人搬迁到城市边缘的不公正现象，而市中心的无数建筑物未得到充分利用。