The uses and regulations about the public space are currently in a debate. The document seeks to identify the different approaches and positions from which this concept is understood at present. To this end, a documentary review was made of the documents that give an account of the different approaches that are presented in Latin America to study, intervene and understand the public space. As a result, it is emphasized that public space is analyzed from a mainly utilitarian stance that leaves the subject and its behavior aside. In this sense, citizen culture appears as a category of analysis to solve this situation. Finally, its study is proposed from different disciplines. This will allow obtaining multidisciplinary arguments for decision making, from different points of view, in front of the public space in the Colombian territories.