Writings on ‘the right to the city’ stress the intrinsic worth of cities to their inhabitants, not merely their instrumental or economic value. While Painter (2005) ICRRDS, U. Durham, comments that ‘the right to the city is the right to make full use of the city and to live a richly urban life’. Attoh (2011), PHG 35, 5, 669 critically examines the concept of the right to the city.