The individual in the formation of the contemporary city

Abstract

The structure of the contemporary city has its origin in the modern city, which emerged after the industrial revolution, as a result of the new relations of production. The changes, in the transition from modernity to post-modernity, are not restricted to the territory, and reflect on the individual, and the cosmopolitan personality loses its reason to exist. It is proposed to analyze how the discipline of urban sociology understands the changes that occur in society and in the individual in the midst of these processes. It also seeks to understand, in particular, the process of urban dispersion and the formation of the anti-urban individual, as well as the relationship between ideology and the conformation of the territory. In order to do so, a literature review was used regarding the ideas of the modern city, its transformations and dispersion in the territory throughout the 20th century and the role of the individual in this territory in transformation. The research demonstrates the complexity of understanding contemporary urban space, demonstrating it as a result of the reciprocal relationship between the individual and the space produced and how this fact has aggravated socio-spatial segregation, as well as the tendency of individualization of relationships and anti-urban feeling in contemporary society.

Keywords: Urban Dispersion, History of Urban Planning, Anti-Urban, Urban Sociology