Quaderns 236: Freed Time
One of the principal lines of argument in twentieth-century urban thought touches on the relationship between urban form and productive structure. This issue of Quaderns looks at the effects of apparently non-productive activities on the city and architecture. Firstly, it analyses the capacity to generate economic value of activities that are, in theory, as unquantifiable as taste, pastimes and social relationships developed in a more or less ludic setting; and secondly, it studies the influence of leisure-related activities on the processes of urban transformation on different scales. The various activities that take place outside the hours of work (or study) and that occupy what we call ‘free time’ play an undeniable role in the economy and also in the strategies of configuration of the built environment. The engineering of leisure, particularly the weekend version, constitutes a phenomenon with a complex organisational structure that translates as a specific system of relations in space, giving rise to a specific architecture and urban development.
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1133-8857-236 |
