Public spaces play an important role in urban life in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Offering space for all activities related to social life like politics, communication, trade, representation, religion, sports, and leisure. The public space symbolizes the society of its formation and has changed significantly over the last 700 years in the continent's troubled history. Indigenous society, colonialism, slavery, revolutions, migration and the modern city of consumption have all left their marks and form the fundament of today's cities. Fragments of all times can still be found today but recent developments dominate modern public spaces in LAC, ranging from shiny shopping centers to dusty voids between informal settlements. However, these inequalities led to growing awareness, „that public space is the only urban land use where all social classes are welcome“.⁶ 

article written by Asghari Kosar, Pujol Carlos, Dürr Niklas

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