BECO
Beco is a tight public space at the Rocinha, a slum area in Rio de Janeiro. In other words, I would say that it is a type of handmade urbanism that generates complex urban patterns.
PUDA 19.2 – Public Space Function
Expression Space
A public space can be almost any meeting point in a common area. Other than parks, markets, plazas, streets, offering cultural and social activities as entertainment or recreational means, they can also be spaces of expressions. In July of this summer, Puerto Rico went out to the streets to protest demanding our Governor resign to …
Reactivators of Social Life
Public spaces, better said, the lack of them may influence the everyday interactions of people as well as their well being. In some regions they can be used as parameters to measure the overall quality of life in a designated area. Therefore, the existence or renewal public spaces has shown to reactivate and strengthen social …
Streets Funtions of public space.
The public space is an essential part of every territory. It is the place where any person could be, and where all the expression of each culture and traditions emerge. A great example of this democratic and artist expression of the inhabitants in the cities are the manifestations. For instance, in my hometown Bogota, there …
Playing
Families living in big cities want to provide spaces for their children to let off steam. Of course traditional playgrounds are therefore the best option. Nevertheless one can find running and playing children on ordinary public spaces, if they are safe and wide enough. There is not much needed to make a space a popular …
A Space to experience
Public space can be the space where people try having different experiences, or change scenarios. For example, this “fake beach” that happens annually in Nottingham, UK. Source of Image: https://www.totalnottingham.com/2019/07/nottingham-beach-returns/
Meeting, encountering and sharing
They are offering space to be together with others, to encounter with new people, new opinions, new ideas and also to share your ideas, opinions. Public space is somewhere that I describe safe and open and I think I can say that these are also functions of public space. To be place safe and open. …
Public space as a place of congregation and a symbol of historical events
Public spaces can act as a place of congregation; a place where a diverse population can share and express their opinions, ideas, and emotions (both joyful and sad). Also, they have stood as symbols of great historical events that took place in the past. For example, Jallianwala Bagh (garden of the Jallah-Man) in Amritsar, India, …
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Streets as a designated space for public/political demonstrations
Streets are used for more than just traffic allowing social and spatial mobility. According to the picture I chose, I like to mention streets as a space for public/political demonstrations. The picture was taken last year while the „Unteilbar“-demonstration at „Unter den Linden“ in Berlin. People went out on the street to march for human …
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