Urban Spaces. The projected city and experienced city

Abstract

This essay presents dialogues on the urban from some ideas of fundamental authors in the reflection on the city in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, first, presents the dialogue between the proposals of Jane Jacobs and Jan Gehl on the scales in which cities are lived and planned, both authors reveal the importance of thinking about people (citizenship) and the human scale when designing urban spaces. Secondly, a dialogue on the right to the city is presented, with some contributions by Henry Lefebvre and David Harvey, the enriching path that this notion, coined during the 1960s, has become the epitome of a social movement appropriated by the actors. Without delving into the theoretical matrices that have shaped these proposals, the goal of this text is to open the debate and present some questions about the meaning of urban experience in terms of the differences between projected spaces and lived spaces, as well as to reflect in exploratory terms on the importance of citizen participation in the elaboration of public policies.