Dynamics of the movement of people and co-presence: passages and stays

Abstract

Open public spaces delimited by barriers such as grids, walls and gables, devoid of access and even buildings do not collaborate for the co-presence and the dynamics of the people movement. Social life is affected by the emergence of segmentation and socio-spatial distancing. The objective of this research is to explain how the spatial dynamics of the people movement occurs indicating possibilities to increase this aspect of urban social life. A theoretical overview of the relationship between spaces and uses is presented, which encompasses the dual physical connections of passages and stays between the public and private domains of the urban configurational system, i.e., the gradations of spatial interfaces established between the buildings and the open public space. As conceptual foundation and methodological procedure of analysis principles of socio-spatial logic are used. The results indicate that as fundamental as the accessibility of the road system, the buildings and the activities, are the different forms of physical and visual continuity made available by the accesses, which effectively enable the socio-spatial, dynamics.