PUBLIC SPACE, ELITIZATION, USAGES, SOCIAL USERS AND CONFLICT: FORUM SQUARE OF TARRAGONA

Identifier:  TFM:479

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TFM479

Authors:  FONT LLARCH, ÈLIA

Abstract:
The Forum Square make up one of the most emblematic public area in the city of Tarragona. Declared Mundial Heritage in 2000. We will discover their life, their people and their social reality. In their patrimonial value, their own essence, their own colour, and at the same time the different usage that taking place in own square, the conflicts that can arise due to their use, the purposes of the different públic users, the noise, the farmer`s market, the local festivities, the terraces, the kids playing in the square... Voices that make yourselfs heard, feelings, identities, neighbours, people... Differents kind of visions, differents viewpoints, differents ways to understand the same reality, differents ways to achive the conciliations... But with one question always in the mind: which kind of square we want?