Praxeology and Space Syntax: An epistemological articulation in favor of urban mobility as human action

Abstract The purpose of this paper is to identify epistemological possibilities of application of Praxeology as a method for studies that aim to bring solutions to urban mobility. Currently, urban mobility is under the centralized planning that wants to provide the public transport that offers the best value for money for the citizens in the provision of urban transport equipment. In this urban planning is used a number of methods and theories of engineering, with axioms of physics, and that treats people as socioeconomic aggregates, subjecting human behavior under models that explain the movements and preferences through variables in mathematical equations. However, these studies of origin-destination using the empiricism of the natural sciences, cannot, as a scientific method to answer the questions that we face in the urban environment. HansHermann Hoppe (1995) makes it clear that it is impossible to consider that the empiricism of the methods can be applied in the social sciences. In this sense this article aims to present the Human Action, Mises (1949), as a guide to understand what in fact is responsible for the movement of people within the metropolis. Therefore, it seeks to connect Praxeology with the Theory of Space Syntax. For the Theory of Space Syntax, and understand urban spaces as product of human interactions and are treated by the individual logic of their interests, and human dynamics within urban areas that may differ from what was originally planned. Think the cities from the individual can be the solution to urban mobility problems for everyone.