Estrategias educativas para la convivencia en los espacios públicos: ciudad y educación

Abstract

The Educational City allows the approach the education that develops in the citizenship from the experience in the frame of the urban space. In this environment, the recognition of social relations and the different behaviours (taken like educational processes) that people adopt in the public space as regards the use and existing in it elements which are considered in urban design needed for habitability and educational vocation of the city, guided the research that it was named “Public Space, City and Education”. The purpose was to study the public space, like one of the main components of the urban life and therefore of the development of the individual and society. Their physical and formal content provided ascertain to verify the impact they have on the education of citizens when they use it and appropriate of him. To do this the behavior of its users and their connection with such content, of which, conclusions, recommendations and urban design parameters that foster peaceful coexistence were built were recognized. The increasingly difficult conditions of life in the city and choice as educators architects, allow defining the incidence and extent professionals dedicated to the design of the city, required to solve the problems generated in the public space and ensure commitment to the quality of life of citizens. From space physicist study of three Bogota squares, with clear differences between them, but are the result of approach of public space for the city, which should guarantee the meeting, communication, social interaction and good human relations, it was noted that the elements contained in these places, quality and participation in the perception of users, when visiting determine specific social behaviors