ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses author's fieldwork experience, where observation, open interviews and research in archives and libraries intermingle, with the aim of providing an example of methodological connections between field material and theory. Renovated waterfronts encapsulate many of the problems and ideas about how to modify the old cities in new, urbanized world. It took a long time to realize that in the waterfront he could address the relationship between the functional tenets of port and city infrastructures with the cultural and social dimensions. The case of the illegal street vendors in Barcelona, and other phenomena we can observe as long as we carry out our fieldwork with open eyes, bring to light new forms of citizenship. The edges of the cities, the new waterfronts are particularly good spaces in which to study such processes, no matter how privatized the public space is. These new identities and the disturbances that the insurgent citizenship generates in the city should be analyzed carefully.
