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Urban lifestyles relate to the way of living adopted in densely populated human settlements and to the conditions and the quality of life in cities. Although different in size, spatial structure, resources availability, social, cultural, and economic characteristics, all cities merge natural with built environments. However, presently and mostly in megacities, human intervention through time has faded out the natural presence to just a subtle shade. The built environment of cities is composed of buildings, communications, services, industry, commerce, and leisure infrastructures. Each city’s own activities are supported by the built environment and by the complex network of synergies and dependencies with other regions, local and globally, that provide for all kinds of resources and goods that cities require, generating the city metabolism. All these interconnections and linkages within the city and to the outside induce urban citizens to adopt certain city lifestyles. Urban lifestyles may be abridged by the following characteristics: a general acceleration of life with long working times, rushing hours in traffic jams, and strictly well-defined weekday routines with lack of time for quietness and to contemplate; higher consumption levels of basic needs such as water, food, and energy than in rural areas; high consumption patterns of disposable or valuable goods driven either by fleeting trends or by superfluous
needs (unconscious or indifferent); and the longing to be, simultaneously, judgmental and socially recognized by peers (even if they are strangers) through possessions and socialization habits.
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Urban Lifestyles Consumption
Citation
Oliveira G. M.; Vidal, D. G.; Ferraz, M. P. 2019. ‘Urban Lifestyles and Consumption Patterns’. Chapter 54-1. In ‘Encyclopaedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals: Sustainable Cities and Communities’. Walter Leal Filho, Pinar Gökçin Özuyar, Anabela Marisa Azul, Luciana Brandli & Tony Wall (Editors). Springer Nature International AG. Pp. 851-860.
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG