Talk in public and urban space
Introduction
One of the inalienable rights that both the constitution of each country contains and is also the art of the universal rights of the human being since it is conceived. As well as in society there has been the discrimination and exclusion of people in many places then a reflection or trace of it remains in the city and its so -called open spaces contained in it, which are nothing more than its public spaces. A space cannot discriminate, but through its configuration it can be inclusive or exclusive to a person according to their sex, age, physical, economic condition and even for their race or culture.
In recent years, some public spaces have stopped meeting the basic needs of which the city inhabit, causing people to become spectators in the city. However, Roxana Cáceres and Silvia Uriol agree, that the public space is destined to be one in which people may be, circulate and appropriate it by giving them themselves, always having mastery of it and being actors and spectators that is to say protagonists of thatspace.
Therefore when a public space stops meeting the basic needs of coexistence between people then loses its meaning and consequence of this becomes more than spaces of experience and inhabiting spaces.
Developing
What the human being seeks in public space is after living is living together, and how a person can live in a space that does not have the conditions to give me the quality of life I am looking for in it?, spaces that are not designed for people with special capacities, spaces that close for homeless people, spaces with a lack of play spaces for children or simply spaces that do not contain services in general that provide security and ensure the quality of life ofeveryone equally. In this sense we can mention as people who are being excluded from these spaces, people with special abilities, older adults, homeless people, women and children.
Deterioration of the quality of public spaces as consequences of exclusion in public space
The exclusion in public space happens by several factors, one of them is the abandonment of public spaces that is part of communities or neighborhoods many times due to lack of electrical maintenance services, sanitary among others, lack of equipment in general. Lack of attraction of public spaces for having other commercial attraction spotlightdelight or essential aesthetic image for the city.
Of public spaces lacking an incomplete city
1. Loss or devaluation of our public space
We are currently seeing public spaces configured with a lack of need that each of its users requires, spaces without identity and above all without activities that invite its use, causing people or another to look for another ideal space to carry out theMeeting and socialization that must be desired in these spaces that according to Mariela Fernández or Curre or passes by planners and public heads of these spaces.
As a consequence, users have no choice but to go to commercial places, shopping centers and spaces that invite the whole family without exclusion to meet their needs without feeling the exclusion of space. However, this does not hide the need and demand of people of spaces that have no trade in trade, rather, society seeks recreational and socialization spaces that allows everyone to integrate and that is why we need to understand that it needs public spaceso that I can comply not only with a space of delight and contemplation but rather of experience.
As is the case of: residential in search of protecting their movable property, they create through clear physical barriers such as walls, gates among other elements that limit access to them;Shopping centers that despite their characteristic of being spaces for socialization, monopolize the wealthy user excluding from this person that they do not have the same economic capacity of those who arrive at these to consume, the shopping centers for their position or strategic location are the focus of attractionIn centralities making public spaces less used. Even commercial places that should be semi -public territory privatize their entrance.
two. The street as a public space
The city is the people on the street
Public space is the city
It is important to accept the fact that the street is a public space not only for being the only means that we can use to cross the city but because it is also the extension of our open, free and leisure spaces. As mentioned by the Department of Transportation of Pennsylvania and New Jersey in their intelligent transport guide ‘the desire to go’ through ‘A place must be balanced with the desire to go’ to ‘a place’ because the roads are responsible for connectingthe houses or places of residences with the leisure spaces causing them to depend on the relationship between the work spaces,
two.1 Street outburst as a public space for pedestrian
The streets go beyond a path that indicates the road, these have been thought for so long as vehicular routes, which we have forgotten to make them an experiential place or space and not just transit, a connection and transition spacethat allows us to expand our space and make it feel as part of our city.
The definition of complete streets has been an answer to the difficulty that the roads entail or walk, streets that are not streets because they have been designed to adapt to the evolution of the times and the vehicular increase in recent decades, where not to travel themon foot are supposed to present a danger or sacrifice for people, however in much of our city and the rest of the world it is.
We truly occupy so much space for parking, subway stops and places that only work with vehicular flow that we cause the spaces of organic and close coexistence to be void forcing us to segment our city for removing the space from people to give priority to the vehicle.
Spaces that lack customization
As well as happens with projects such as (schools, buildings and commercial places) that are photocopy throughout the urban plot regardless of the different conditions or factors of a place, also the public spaces that are multiplied where there is an available space eliminate any sense ofbelonging and inclusion that may be in a community, each project either architectural and urban must have as a starting point the study of the community and land in which it intends to be located because only by knowing the needs of an environment can a public space be integratedproperly in a place.
conclusion
Public space must comply with a certain degree of compatibility with its environment and for this it must have the ability to be directly linked to what happens in its environment. What does a public space with children’s games in a neighborhood where most of its inhabitants are aging people? O What does a public space have without urban furniture within a peripheral neighborhood where it only access to it through vehicular transportation? These are questions that must be asked to understand the meaning and coherence that public space must have in relation to the purpose or function that you will perform in its location.
How many times we want to leave home to exercise or share with the family away from home and we realize that the closest public space is hundreds of kilometers. It is a pity that even in totally urbanized places, public spaces are needed and worse, in those areas still in the process of urbanizing, they are disjointed by the absence of public spaces that fill urban gaps that leave their growth from a shopping center or otherof its causes.
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