City nature. Infrastructures and services

Abstract

With the opposition between “nature in the city” and “nature of the city”, we want to indicate that the city has its own nature: that one that links with its condition of “public place”. The incorporation, to the city, of those other originating elements of the “natural world” adopting, as more habitual expression, the “system of the green” as urban equipment par excellence, agrees with a historical moment, the beginnings of modernity, in which these urban equipment link with the necessity of cleaning up the urban scope, unique way in order to reach an alternative of quality to the social spaces of class. The city introduces nature by exigencies of the social groups implied in its project and construction. It is an approach to “nature” that these groups propose while, at the same time, they are vindicating the abandonment of the existing city, positioning themselves in front of the “city of the work”, the city that marginalizes and whose endemic absence of services is its essential characteristic, or establishing city-planning rules that foment the space segregation.