Author(s)

Rogerio Proenca Leite

Laboratório de Estudos Urbanos e Culturais, Federal University of Sergipe (UFS), São Cristóvão, Brasil.

This article explores the contemporary dimensions of consumer practices in urban life, specifically in their interrelations with gentrification processes and the development of smart cities. Based on the exploratory concept of Hyperflow positive Ambients, the article looks to comprehend the resonances of the transformation of cities in extended spaces of Consumer Society and the metamorphosis of being into valuebeing. It argues that excessive consumption and the hyperneurotic flow of accelerated capital income is a fatal form of denying the finitude of being and the possibility of death, which connects contemporary corporate urbanism to the consummation of the city and urban life.

Consumerism, Urban Life, Gentrification, Smart City

Leite, R. (2016) Atopic City: Consumption and Death in Urban Life. Current Urban Studies, 4, 280-296. doi: 10.4236/cus.2016.43019.