3.1.2. And What Is the Configuration of Urban Society in These Years of Economic Expansion?

Urban society is one of cultural heterogeneity, which results from the increase in transnational migrations or, as some authors have also defined, from labor migration, that is, the city in which the spaces of flow emerge, in the words of Castells [21]. In addition to this, there is a new social awareness, with the development of values that have contributed to define a more heterogeneous city in terms of ethnicity and culture, with mixed, in-between, border, and contact spaces.

To the ethnic communities and the external image they project, in the use of public spaces, in small businesses, or in the offer of certain services, new social and identity values are added, whose recognition is demanded by homosexuals, transsexuals, and bisexuals in well-defined urban spaces, spaces that they shape. These practices allow us to understand urban entities in a different way, as the Spanish city of this period begins to manifest itself as a city sensitive to the subject and to the personal experiences of women and men; that is, they allow us to make a geography of everyday life, to rescue movement, in the words of David Ley [22] (p. 162): "transnational spaces, yes, but still everyday lives."

These transformations coincide with a change in the labor market pyramid, with visible contrasts between the base of workers with lower incomes and in a more precarious situation, and the managerial–executive social class. This division, although reminiscent of the proletariat–bourgeoisie, is more complex, blurred in its limits, with greater overlaps, and less predictable from a political point of view, due to social fragmentation, ideological plurality, and the proliferation of interests found.
