The cities are not only structures, buildings, material places way. In this contribution deepens the perspective of a "city reading", where learning and knowledge are constructed through the interaction between people. The environments that we cross every day and ideally and really are made by signs, structures, codes, creativity and above all complexity. The first thing that citizens need is to understand what they have to your around, be able to analyse it, compare it, count it and investigate it. Increased and many are educational difficulties, the culture of legal representation according to Chartier could facilitate us in the exploration of reality, in the awareness of being in a specific space. Freedom and democracy write Dewey meet, learn and read, as well as holistic people need it. Reading and writing are the first key powers who wish to get even at European level (Lisbona, 2000), while in other places as in Mexico refers to the promotion of reading, and gets to practice with courses like "Reading cultures and multialphabetization in university" (2015) developed at the University of Guadalajara with the attempt to understand the literary city by reading, learning and cooperation for the dissemination of creativity
