ABSTRACT
Space and subjectivity are two categories that, in the way they have developed, may direct us towards an understanding of a crucial moment in the reconfiguration of the present symbolic economy of cities. Space and time, in their relationship to place, are also categories prone to significant revisions when inscribed within the entrepreneurial context of cities and their new networks of the production of sociability and signification. In these new urban grammars it has been equally possible to verify the dismantling of the traditional borders between the civic and the entrepreneurial dimensions of cities, when approached within a larger symbolic economy (see Hetherington, in this volume). The aim of this chapter is to reflect on the impact the redesign, alteration, and transformation of urban space have had on the production of sociability among groups of urban middle-class youths in the city of Rio de Janeiro.
