Abstract
The article presents the theme concerning the contemporary city and, therefore, aims to discuss and analyze the importance of the production of public policies involved with social participation in the formulation, implementation and monitoring of urban spaces . It states the difference between urban spaces and government policies, which are focused to contain dissatisfactions and urban tensions. It also highlights matters and urban issues emerging today, such as violence, overcrowding and housing shortages, insisting on the right to the city, on the collective production of modes of life and also on questionings about life governmentalisation modes that are in urban scene.
city; public policy; subjective processes