Steps towards an urban speech

• Author(s): García y Ruiz, Manuel
• Date: 2014
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/10950
• Origin: Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa
• Subject(s): Cidades; Antropologia urbana; Sociologia urbana; Arte urbana; Teses de mestrado - 2014
• Document Type: Master thesis
• Language: Portuguese
• Advisor(s): Malafaia, Maria Teresa
• Contributor(s): Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa

Description

Tese de mestrado, Cultura e Comunicação, Universidade de Lisboa, Faculdade de Letras, 2014

The present dissertation reviews different academic traditions on urban conception and urban art in order to set a base for future researches on urban cultural studies. In this work we present the core of our theory, the acts of experience, the urban consumer and the liminality. These concepts are introduced and applied on different scenarios, making a world overview of the current state of the cities and the urban arts. This work sets an alternative reading of the city and an open suggestion on public policies in order to improve the habitability of the cities, underline the importance of urban arts and the high relevance of inhabitants’ opinion. The different urban spheres are reviewed in this work and some suggestions are given to skip marginalization and extreme liminality situations.