Recreaciones urbanas: usos extraordinarios de la calle en acontecimientos temporales

Abstract

The present investigation “Urban Recreations: Street extraordinary uses in temporary events” special events in urban space. It is targeted to offer a new regard about thouse actions which generate a temprary change of use at the street, changing it into a place where to stay and carry out activities. The investigation pretends to study different cases of temporary transformations in public space, digging into hispanic traditional cases which their special use of the street could awaken interest, in contrast to those which currently innovate with new functioning proposals. Nowadays that many school of thought and action based in happening, situationism and urban acupunture are proliferating through ephemeral urban actions, and there is an important debate about street uses and functions (because of good intentions of deceleration or pedestrianization in big cities around the world) the investigation aims to show popular temporary urban transformations, contrasting present to past, innovation to tradition.