ABSTRACT
Most recent innovative experiences in city planning for people focus on some quite specific urban practice models. Many of these experiences consist of rehabilitation or redesign of public spaces, according to safety standards, accessibility and functional criteria, very often legitimized in community or collaborative approaches. The model of production of urban space by means of radical zoning and large single main-use estates or parks, which is identified with the triumph of functionalism during the second half of the twentieth century, has offered little more than solutions of certain and limited urban quality in recent years. The urban fabric is designed through the dual conception of the way plots and buildings gather and conform in urban blocks and their specific relationship to a public space, from which they are inseparable, like positive and negative. The possibility of construction of urban identities not only in adjoining or domestic spaces, such as block and street, but also in the neighbourhood as whole.
