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Western Urban Man Faces Leisure

Unesco Institute for Social Sciences, Cologne

Western man is developing a unique civilization which is at once industrial and urban as well as global in its influence. It grows out of his persistent dedication to work and his unceasing devotion to increasing the effectiveness of his work. As a by-product he has given himself abundant leisure, for which some feel he is unprepared. Work and leisure are seen as overlapping in all phases of living, and the relationship changes continuously. Society and the man-made environment of Westerners are urban-centred. Urbanism extends vigorously outward. Some of the characteristics of industrial urbanism (milieu of Western man's work and leisure) are high mobility, high tempo and time awareness, mass organization for production, consumption and sharing the agglomerate life, the emergence of a new type of individualism, as well as new social class relationships.

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