摘要：The aim is to discuss the nature of space and, based on the Theory of Communicative Action, Jürgen Habermas and contributions in theoretical and methodological miltonianos, propose it as communicative or public. The nature of space, which is instrumental in its entirety private-and public-communicative, is analyzed from its interactions, on one side, with the human use of the technique, time, reason and emotion, with the interactions between form, function, structure and process. In the way intersubjective these interactions occur as a result communicative nature or the public space. The space communicative or public support in the communicative reason and actions directed towards mutual understanding free from coercion, in this sense opposed to the instrumental nature of space, based on reason and cognitive-instrumental in the actions oriented purposes, dominant in actuality and colonization of the world associated with the system on the world lived. Key-words: Nature of space. Theory of action communicative. Public space.
关键词：Natureza do espaço;Teoria da ação comunicativa;Espaço público.
