Leisure and the Post-Modern City: From Material to Immaterial Space

Abstract

The main goal here treated is to reflect on the current circumstances that involve the urban leisure practices and how the city presents itself a stage replete with new equipments, where the technology has a significant and interventor role. To this end, considering the classical conception of leisures, we have sought to analyze how this occurs in the current information society and how its spaces should be revaluated, whether they are inserted in the urban context or in the virtual environment. This analysis demonstrated that the theories so far conceived for the analysis of leisures and their spaces should be reviewed since we live dualized between the real space and the virtual space and the real city of today presents itself as a melting pot of specific spatializations that aim to attend to a troubled and fast-paced everyday life, but the virtual city presents itself as the broad space where the personal and relational times are respected and, above all, presents itself as a great 'party'.