LIVING IN URBAN COMPLEXITY

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.22533/at.ed.216512503071

• Palavras-chave: inhabitation, urban complexity, uncertainty, cultural identity, public space.

• Keywords: inhabitation, urban complexity, uncertainty, cultural identity, public space.

• Abstract:

  Inhabiting a city seems to be a normal practice and yet it is not so. Inhabiting is one of the two substantive functions of human beings along with speaking (Doberti and Giordano, 2000) which, lacking a theory of its own, has not been able to explain the possible preferences of citizens in locating their residence in a certain area or another of the city. We can consider that these decisions are part of the complexity involved in living in a city, a phenomenon that is linked to urban complexity, which is just beginning to be studied and understood as the difficulty to understand and accurately reproduce the dynamics of complex systems in cities (Fernandez, 2022). For this purpose, we present a brief description of what urban complexity has been, which we complement with a "theory of inhabiting".  Finally, we include two topics that seem to us fundamental in this decision about where to live; these topics are cultural identity and public space. We consider that this article should be considered as a review article.