ABSTRACT

According to urban sociologists, the contemporary large city is better defined as a third-generation metropolis. It is the result of a deep transformation of the ways of living, working and consuming performed by different population groups: residents, commuters, city users and businessmen (Martinotti, 1993). This framework produces a great variety of flows of people, which leads to competition for the use of space. The growing complexity of the urban system generates a multilayered timing based on the fragmentation and combination of labour, consumption and social relation's activities.