La trama del peatón sobre la trama urbana: la impronta de las lógicas internas del desplazamiento a pie en la cualificación de los ámbitos urbano

Abstract

What does movement on foot mean in current complex large cities? Many cities all over the world have tackled the issue of reclaiming more footpaths, facing vehicular mobility abuse. How do they do it? What strategies do they use? To what extent are they able to transform road schemes and urban structures resulting from the long-term application of a speed and efficiency paradigm? How limited is the negotiation among types of mobility within the city? To what extent does it make sense to pedestrians? This “regeneration” has added “higher quality” public space to streets; the capillary network of mobility supposedly distributes such public space throughout the city in a more uniform array. Is this a possibility or do pedestrian zones generate privileges and isolated hierarchies? Finally, it is worth asking if the special interventions for pedestrians are copying the internal logics of those who walk, to give sense to these places where there are inserted.