The producrion of the public spaces partners from the squares perspective of the city of Porto Alegre

Abstract

With this work we intend to reflect the production of the space of the square, in front of the universe of contemporary public spaces. The thesis is that the public spaces of the square were constituted as redoubts of alternative appropriations. Thus, divergent from the logic of “urban revitalizations”, based on real estate speculation, the squares resisted and consolidated a production of the space of popular character. In addition, the development of the work presents a methodological proposal that crosses the guiding concepts of Geography in order to broaden and make multiple the theoretical appropriation. Thus, through the concept of landscape, space, territory and place, the squares bring to light a clandestine and subterranean reality of the social life in the public spaces.