São Paulo: urbanidad y metrópolis

Abstract

The concept of urbanity is difficult but essential for studying the contemporary urban world, analyzing spaces that structure socially and functionally the city. Based on a rationalist urbanism, metropolitan expansion models increased the limits of the traditional city and transformed the idea of urbanity. This work aims to approximate to a comprehension of this term and understand how processes of contemporary metropolis, identified in the city of São Paulo, affected some of its most significant public spaces of interaction. Understanding the importance of this apparently ambiguous expression, the aim is to think about the action spaces of public life in our cities of tomorrow.