AbstractHow and where do we educate ourselves? This question has made possible to link together reflections about spaces not as inert scenarios but rather as instructive materiality, the bodies and field managers of educability. Thus, it is our objective to discuss the role of the city as an educator in order to (re-)establish the pedagogy of the city. This is expressed not only through the urban life style, the learning of civility and the entitlement to the city, but also in pedagogical functions expressed in urban and school projects, in the relationship existing between the urban body/citizen body, urban hermeneutics and a sensible stance in face of the urban.