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La invención del espacio público como espacio moral
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[spa] El concepto de espacio público aparece hoy como central a la hora de referirse a losexteriores urbanos por parte de los especialistas en ciudad en general, tanto si se pronunciandesde las ciencias sociales como si lo hacen desde las disciplinas tecnológicas, el diseño, laarquitectura, el urbanismo, o desde los discursos oficiales en materia de gobernabilidad. Enrealidad, ese concepto, tomado de la filosofía política, sirve desde hace relativamente poco–años 1990– para nombrar lo que antes se había designado como lugar público osencillamente calle. Cargado de connotaciones ideológicas, espacio público es una de lascategorías-fetiche en que se basan los discursos arquitectónicos, urbanísticos y degobernabilidad y es clave en la actual revalorización al mismo tiempo mercantil ymoral de los huecos urbanos, en el marco de las grandes dinámicas de apropiación capitalista delas ciudades.
[eng] The concept of public space comes out, nowadays, as a central one when it comes to relate urban outwards by urban specialists in general, both if it is pronounced from Social Sciences or technological disciplines as design, architecture, urban planning, or even from official discourses on governance. In fact, this concept taken from political philosophy has come in hand since a little while ago —1990’s— to name what before was designated as a public place or, more simply, street. Loaded with ideological or even mystical connotations, public space becomes one of the charm-categories on which is based nowadays’ both commercial and moral revalorization of urban gaps, in the frame of larger dynamics of capitalist appropriation of cities.
[eng] The concept of public space comes out, nowadays, as a central one when it comes to relate urban outwards by urban specialists in general, both if it is pronounced from Social Sciences or technological disciplines as design, architecture, urban planning, or even from official discourses on governance. In fact, this concept taken from political philosophy has come in hand since a little while ago —1990’s— to name what before was designated as a public place or, more simply, street. Loaded with ideological or even mystical connotations, public space becomes one of the charm-categories on which is based nowadays’ both commercial and moral revalorization of urban gaps, in the frame of larger dynamics of capitalist appropriation of cities.
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DELGADO, Manuel. La invención del espacio público como espacio moral. Quaderns de l'Institut Català d'Antropologia. 2023. Vol. 39, num. 1, pags. 27-39. ISSN 0211-5557. [consulted: 15 of June of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/226931