City planning: is it possible to project a collective future for the city?

Abstract

City Planning and urbanistic emerge when the urban and the urbanity get extinguished in the XX century beginnings at the moment that the polis decisively lacerates with no possibilities to turn back. From the Critical Geography perspective, we will discuss the urban planning developed through the citizenship participation. To project the city supposes to reflect on it into time, evaluating its material conditions shaped in the space, as well as the not accomplished possibilities. To plan the city means to identify the times and places where life - in its all dimensions and senses - will happen. The Public Power responsibility, the urban planning actions that regard to the citizen participation are recent and they deserve to be carefully analysed, having in mind the enlargement and deepen of social inequalities in the cities which could break the possible dialogue to plan a collective future.