A tutela dos direitos culturais no ambito das cidades: sua relevância para a promoção e construção cotidiana da cidadania no estado democrático de direito brasileiro

Abstract

The present work proposes to investigate the cultural environment in city s sphere, with particular enphasis in the analysis of cultural rights, in its custody and in its relevance to daily promotion and construction of citizenship. This analysis is made from the investigation of how cultural rights have its legal status under city s rights, just like the ways of assuring its regular exercise as an essencial item to healthy quality of life and to the achievement of human s dignity as a base of democratic state of right. Based on the interpretation of the constitution we reached to analyze in with ways its wishes are effected, through active legislation s survey and interpretation and its contemplated tools, as well in researches that show the situation of the big urban centers, notably from Rio de Janeiro. Cultural and artificial environment are dimensions from the environment related very narrowly. In this perspective, this work was directed to the comprehension of the dinamic and participatory aspect of cultural rights and how they find the expression in city s scope, comprehended like not only a physical-geographic space, but as a simbolic space. In with ways the legal order can provide answers to this right s safeguard? What is the bundle of State s obligations to the citizens and what is the one it can require to this right s effectiveness? How can it transmute the urban center s reality in the matter of cultural environment, in favor to life s quality? How to promove the quality of life based on cultural vectors? This were some of the questions that guided the actual work in the effort to represent a construction of how the rights and the own culture can contribute to a fairer society and to more quality of life