“…Central to a city well-being, public spaces contribute to the quality of urban life, fostering social, cultural and economic capital (UN-Habitat, 2016). A vast body of literature focus on their social function (Figure 2.4), as providers of the place for peoples' interaction with other people (Carmona, Heath, Tiesdell, & Oc, 2003;Gehl, 1987;Innerarity, 2006;Jacobs, 1961;Lefebvre, 1991;Sennett, 1977) and with their environment (Smaniotto & Menezes, 2016). Public spaces act as stage for the enactment of citizenship, to practice publicness, and as such they play a key role within the complex social infrastructure (Smaniotto Costa & Menezes, 2016).…”