Practical Urban: The Urban Furniture and Its Relationship with the City

Abstract

This article explains the concepts of city and urban practices—phenomena of urban activity—that directly influence the deployment of street furniture and, above all, the importance given to them by the population, with regard to its true functions, identity, meaning (symbology), uses and appropriations. It is vitally important for the study also understand the urban furniture relation to the design of cities, is to complement the public space, is the way interferes with the urban landscape. You have to understand how society is shown in front of herself and the world itself that surrounds it, and what are the devices that make city living when connect—through uses and customs—as this is the vital forces of individuals and community space practices created by the tactics of the inhabitants to allow its ambiance, wellness, safety and comfort, sensations often perceived by the set of elements that constitute the urban furniture of cities.