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Places for leisure
places for city
pp. 19-43
Abstract
Our current society reveres aesthetic and hedonistic values centred on pleasure and lightness. A sign of this is the rapid multiplication and success of games on offer, which permeates the classic leisure area and risks causing and spreading superficial attitudes and styles, disillusioned to the point of being passive, in social relations and the relationship with the principal categories of civil life, such as politics and culture (Mori 2002). But there is no doubt that leisure is to some extent a constituent element of metropolitan man, in terms of the link between the culture of narcissism and the weakening of the individual resulting in flexible man, infinitely adaptable and able to be manipulated. It is a sociological phenomenon that over thirty years ago Sennett (1977) considered the result of a change that led halfway through the nineteenth century to the formation of a new capitalist, secularised, urban culture.
Publication details
Published in:
Maciocco Giovanni, Serreli Silvia (2009) Enhancing the city: new perspectives for tourism and leisure. Dordrecht, Springer.
Pages: 19-43
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DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-2419-0_2
Full citation:
Maciocco Giovanni (2009) „Places for leisure: places for city“, In: G. Maciocco & S. Serreli (eds.), Enhancing the city, Dordrecht, Springer, 19–43.


