This work proposes essay of urban reading in order to grasp relations between the urban space and the everyday experiences in the Historical Center of São Paulo, through the empirical observation of your present as thickness refers to the past and its future. Different from what is presented in some discourses there is no reduction in his public life; instead, there is a change in it, becoming more complex with dynamic new uses occupying their public places. Today the downtown has a rich legacy as a system of free spaces that already staged great moments in the public life of São Paulo society, these independent of characteristics and appropriation of its members are heavily used.Este trabalho propõe um ensaio de leitura urbana a fim de apr...