As contested spaces, urban settings express the complex dynamics of exploitation, oppression, and emancipation. Building on long-standing struggles, the right to the city and the new municipalist movements have been creating new imaginaries and material realities that foster the commons and confront privatization, gentrification, and exclusion. From Mexico City to Barcelona and beyond, this thesis analyzes the transformative agendas that multi-sectoral and multi-scalar alliances are putting forward as part of pedagogicalpolitical processes of articulation and differentiation. Within a framework that combines the rights in the city, the rights of the city and the right to the city, I propose to conceptualize the right to (transform) the city as a tridimensional narrative-in-practice. Explicit feminist and decolonial lenses help me to identify some of the most salient limitations and potentials of these initiatives, opening questions and paths for further dialogue and collaboration across academic fields and social action. sources. During the past two decades, I have been fortunate enough to share the commitment, experience, and wisdom of hundreds of community activists and dear compañeres from around the world (too many to be named). Their struggles and work to protect and advance peoples' rights to housing and to the city have transformed the places and the societies they live in, and have given me the hope and conviction that another urban reality is not only possible but also already in the making. As part of the Habitat International Coalition and the Global Platform for the Right to the City, I have had the opportunity to learn and experiment around collective action with multiple groups at multiple scales, in ways that I suspect very few institutions can offer.Engaging in a masters' degree and the development of a thesis is certainly a challenging task, particularly as a (very) mature student. The Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University, characterized by its multi/inter-disciplinary approach, has been a truly welcoming academic home. I am grateful to all my professors and fellow students for their generosity and thought-provoking encounters along this two-year adventure that has allow me to change and grow. I want to thank my co-supervisors, Prof. Cristina Rojas and Prof. Julie Tomiak, for their dedicated, careful and warm guidance in what at moments can feel as an overwhelming intellectual and emotional roller-coaster (not to mention the stress added by the pandemic context). I also would like to acknowledge Prof. Rianne Mahon and Prof. Justin Paulson for their contributions as members of my examination committee, as well as the administrators of the Institute, Donna Coghill and Tabbatha Malouin, for their continuous help.Last but not least, I am indebted to the unconditional support and love from my family and friends in Argentina, Canada, Mexico, Spain and beyond. Their questions and reassurances, in person and virtually, have sharpened my reflections and sustained my motivation along the wa...