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Mexico City is a monster of asphalt and is made up of micro-universes that we can notice if we look closely. One of the main places where these interactions take place is in public spaces, such as parks, sidewalks, streets, alleys, small squares, among others. "The idea of a public space designates a territory of new social life where something like a public opinion can be formed" (Habermas, Jürgen, 1996). The public space undergoes various transformations and is charged with different meanings to become a new territory of new social life. In the following book I exemplify in three different ways the popular resignifications based on the uses that can be given to public space in Mexico City. Duhau-Giglia, 2004, comment that these uses and representations configure an urban order based on their own rules of common use, operative but not written, derived to a great extent from the specific form of production of space.
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Karla Selena Como Martinez, BA in Sozialanthropologie, Mexiko. Sie ist spezialisiert auf Fragen der Populärkultur, der Filmdistribution durch nicht autorisierte Medien, die Prekarität der mexikanischen Filmindustrie sowie auf die Auseinandersetzung mit sozialen, kulturellen und politischen Themen durch Fotografie und Dokumentarvideo.
