Convergent Urbanism: Urban life, human landscape

Abstract

The social construction of public space has become important since the mid-20th century. Several interdisciplinary scenarios have been used to argue the physical and social destruction of cities around the world as a result of traditional urbanization models inspired by capitalism. The model is challenged and methods for humanizing the city are suggested. This article presents some reflections that come from the doctoral research project of the same name, which examines new social action-production strategies of public spaces at the microscale, including tactical urbanism, its mode of operation, the socio-spatial variables it produces, and the model's scalability. To reinforce the idealistic foundations of the urban movements that promote these modern collaborative practices, a bibliographic review of several influential classic theorists is performed. Two case studies are presented in the South American context (geographical segment of the research), in which the tools and elements of tactical interventions are evaluated and some of the conclusions that have been defined in the PhD work are acknowledged.

Keywords: tactical urbanism, convergent urbanism, human scale, right to the city.