Urban transformations are processes that are part of the dynamics of urbanism. The processes of progressive transformation of the different urban configurations expand the ways of using urban spaces. However, these different interactions, phenomena, and subsequent forms of appropriation of spaces by citizens, evidence various representations where the current idea and generalized definition of the so-called public space, ignores some characteristics, special social dynamics, and attributes of urban surfaces. Cali is a Colombian city, in which these urban processes are evidenced in each context, in this way, the tradition of the city cannot be read under the same idea of public space in a current context and the process of development.