This article uses participant observation data to explore teenagers’ presence in two urban public spaces in Manchester, England. The urban spaces under investigation are public, but surrounded by retail outlets and act as gateways for consumption. The aim is to answer the question ‘how do the rhythms of teenage life differ when ordinary and extraordinary activities occur in urban public spaces of consumption?’ Lefebvre’s Rhythmanalysis is employed to analyse the data and identify instances of eurhythmia (harmonious rhythms), arrhythmia (discordant rhythms) and polyrhythmia (multiple simultaneous rhythms) during periods of typical and extraordinary use. Ordinarily the teenagers used the spaces of consumption to mostly meet and socialise with friends with a small number of them using the space to skateboard. This occurred harmoniously alongside others who pass through these gateways to consumption indicating multiple rhythms. The findings indicate that the teenagers were displaced from urban space during the staging of official events which involved increased control from authorities such as the local council and police. They were replaced by a different crowd of people consisting of mostly families and adults. Paradoxically, the ‘festival’ atmosphere created by extraordinary events in the gateways of consumption resulted more interaction among those present despite increased control from the authorities. Rhythmanalysis proved useful in understanding of spaces when researching spaces of consumption, as it exposes the temporal and fluid nature of urban space. Ultimately, there was no room for the presence of regular users (teenagers) during the staging of extraordinary events indicating a lack of multiple rhythms.

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消费门户：节奏分析

本文使用参与者观察数据来探索青少年在英格兰曼彻斯特的两个城市公共空间中的存在。被调查的城市空间是公共的，但周围有零售店，是消费的门户。目的是回答“当城市公共消费空间中发生普通和非凡活动时，青少年生活的节奏如何不同？”的问题。Lefebvre 的节律分析用于分析数据并识别在典型和特殊使用期间的 eurhythmia（和谐节律）、心律失常（不和谐节律）和多节律（多个同步节律）的实例。通常青少年使用消费空间主要是与朋友见面和社交，少数青少年使用空间滑板。这与其他通过这些门户消费的人和谐地发生在一起，表明多种节奏。调查结果表明，在地方议会和警察等当局加强控制的官方活动举行期间，这些青少年被迫离开城市。他们被不同的人群所取代，主要是家庭和成年人。矛盾的是，尽管当局加强了控制，但消费门户中的非凡事件所创造的“节日”气氛导致在场者之间的互动更多。在研究消费空间时，节奏分析被证明有助于理解空间，因为它揭示了城市空间的时间性和流动性。最终，