Urban instability in contemporary cities emerges as both a challenge and a catalyst for innovation, particularly when examined through the lens of Córdoba’s Historic Center, where public space becomes a contested and productive arena for tactical interventions led by actors within the creative economies; these bottom-up actions, often fleeting and informal, reflect a response to structural inertia and the limited flexibility of institutional urban planning, offering instead situated practices that transform the everyday use and symbolic meaning of shared spaces; the analysis identifies three temporal readings of the Historic Center—its current spatial condition, its historical development, and its contemporary revaluation—as a framework for understanding how these interventions engage with memory, identity, and collective urban experience; within this triadic structure, three case studies exemplify how ephemeral urban practices function not only as spatial critiques but also as forms of creative citizenship, where the appropriation of streets, plazas, and interstitial spaces generates new forms of urban agency; these actions disrupt normative uses of space, provoke dialogue, and reveal latent possibilities within the built environment, showing how tactical creativity can produce spatial exceptionality even within historically rigid urban cores; ultimately, the convergence of knowledge, innovation, and creativity—mobilized through informal practices—underscores the potential of these ephemeral interventions to reshape perceptions of centrality and publicness in the Latin American city. Stang, J.I. (2017) ‘Provoca/acciones urbanas: Reflexiones en torno a prácticas tácticas ascendentes y creativas en el espacio urbano público del Centro Histórico de la ciudad de Córdoba, Argentina’. Universidad Nacional de La Plata.
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