Pontos e fluxos: apropriações dos espaços urbanos de uso público

Abstract

This work analyzes the occupations of the public space in the contemporary urban experience. It is intended to argue the complexity of the relations that involve the existence of the Points on the perspective of the “churrasquinho” hawker, category that grew more in the city of Maceió, having as empiricist referential the spaces occupied by this trader. Considering the creative practices of appropriation that they exert, either in the places chosen for their work, either in the different way how they appropriate is what it is intended to determine: a) how the Point, place of reinforcement of the human activity, can contribute for the dynamics of the public spaces of the at present cities; b) what are the determinant factors in the process of selecting the trade point used by the hawker in their occupations; c) which localities are likely to the appropriated for this stratum of the population; d) how the appropriation of these spaces configures; e) which is the urban importance of the recognition of this category.