Planning urban space in modern society: public management in search of urban trademarks in the city of Curitiba

Abstract

Due to the spatial and social transformation occurred in the last decades in major cities, it is a good time now to start to discuss urban planning “in a sense of form” of some city spaces. In other words, what is the mea-ning of the public spaces to the general population of that particularly city? This is the starting point for this article, since the creation process of urban space in the city Curi-tiba is noticeable, initially like morphological changes that is based on some paradigms in the cities’ modernization process, among them the search for some urban trademarks. In this brief analysis I like to point out some characteristics of urban planning of the public spaces in the city of Curitiba, with special emphasis to modern tendencies.