Practical urban: The urbanity and its relationship with the contemporary city

Abstract

[EN] This article explains the concepts of city and urban practices - phenomena of human activity into the urbanity - that directly influence the life of the people, your own inhabits and customs, becoming the city the image from your own habitants. It is vitally important for the study understand the urbanity relation to the design of cities, as a complement of the public space, one of the ways that interferes at the urban landscape. We can understand how society is shown in front of herself and the world itself that surrounds it, and what are the devices that make city living when are connected - through uses and customs - vital forces of individuals and their communities at the space with some practices created by the tactics of the inhabitants to allow its ambiance, wellness, safety and comfort, sensations often perceived by the set of elements that constitute the cities. The city spaces are perceived through symbols and signs that are manifested through equipment, furniture, buildings, streets, squares, signage and parking lots that make up the identity of the place. Usually this identity is described by the image that people have of the place, of the resident population habits, social resentações and produced interventions. The city is more than a jumble of individual men and social conveniences, it is something more than a mere constellation of institutions and administrative provisions. The city is a state of mind, a body of customs, traditions, feelings and attitudes inherent organized the vital processes of the people who compose it. The city is a product of nature, especially of human nature. Urban space is a form of unconscious rationalization (individual and collective), disguised in the visibility of their urban layouts, buildings and monuments, which can be mistaken, suppressing critical reflection and self-criticism of inhabitants or social groups. Cities must offer good living spaces, leisure, integration and culture so that everyone can exercise the right to collective use, living on the street or in the park with the family, revaluing the humanase relations improving the quality of life of its residents. We identify with the places as we recognize its importance and representing a local or global identity.