Essay on public building and Space This essay seeks to discuss some ideas about public space, due to the importance that it undoubtedly has to produce a city, generate social integration and build respect for the other elements of a city. Additionally, public space has acquired a significant weight in the debates on the city and in the urban policy agenda; which is not accidental: it has become one of the topics of greatest social confrontation with respect to the future of cities. Today the urban crisis has determined a positioning of management models and urban intervention policies that is expressed, finally, in two different perspectives: one that seeks to overcome the crisis from a perspective that tends to deepen the private commercial method , in which public space is seen as a break, as something marginal; and another that seeks to temper the crisis under an approach that tends to give greater meaning to the public and, especially, to public space in urban organization. Thi