Entre o quintal e o parque: possibilidades de produção do espaço público cotidiano

Abstract

The research seeks to understand what leads some people to accept passively the production of urban space from third parties and, on the other hand, what leads others to engage in such production. The focus is the everyday public space: the public space on the surroundings of thedwelling, between the backyard and the municipal park. Four cases of occupiable spaces located on residential environments in the city of Belo Horizonte are analyzed, as well as the surrounding residents position about its production. The aim is to discuss both the dificulties that people who decide to transform these spaces independently face as well as the existing conditions to their collective production. Situated in a sort of limbo of urban regulation, the everyday public space can be the focus of interventions decided by those who experience it daily presenting rich possibilities of social articulations.