El dilema del tiempo público y las implicaciones de la planificación urbana en Costa Rica.

Abstract

The following article presents the work of discussion between two hypotheses born within the academic research that was developed throughout the Urban Design courses. The focus of these classes allowed to discuss and analyze the possible influences of urban planning on the phenomena of experiencing public space, as well as citizen public time. On the one hand, the relations between the various concepts to be studied in global terms were underlined, on the other hand a specific reading of the phenomenon was proposed in Costa Rica. These approaches were developed through qualitative research based on the literature review of sources that also provided the opportunity to design an investigation aimed at dialogue between the documents. The critical-historical approach sought to construct a theory that could narrate the Costa Rican idiosyncrasy in the field of urban experience, between its tangible aspect of "public space", as well as its socio-cultural and political counterpart, defined as "public time".