ESPAÇO PÚBLICO E PERIFERIA NA CIDADE CONTEMPORÂNEA: ENTRE AS NECESSIDADES E AS POSSIBILIDADES

Abstract

We propose in this article an underlying reflection to the city production process with emphasis on the use of public spaces. Therefore, we consider the reverse path (or unconventional). In other words, we analyze the way the city is structured from its peripheral areas, where the neighborhoods that have lower incomes in a medium Paraná city. This perspective examines the relationship between citizens and their public spaces, considering the daily socio-spatial practices in them are established as a representation of the different uses the city, or part of it, as well as incorporating the research process the opinion of those who live in it, that is, it gives voice to the citizen. The results point to a process that constantly redefines public spaces as an expression of the city's production process, its contradictions, conflicts and reflexes. At the same time promotes policies as spectacle sites, these peripheral areas are also relegated to oblivion by the loss of some key functions. However, and therefore, these spaces are characterized by their multifunctionality, the place of possible political act, the claim, the party, the playfulness and improvisation, emphasizing the public nature and contributing to a sense of the production of space public in the contemporary city.