Questioning the public space is envisaged to redesign the city through relational urban planning. The city is understood to be an inhabited, perceptible and shared space, shaped by the uses and perceptions of those who use it, beyond its sole functional organisation. This approach aims to reintroduce living in the heart of the public space, by considering the city as a sensitive ecosystem, resulting from interactions between residents and their environment.
Through the concept of the commons and living environments, this analysis highlights the role of public spaces as appropriation, cohabitation and meeting places, in the context of contemporary urban transformations.