Children's leisure infrastructure in an urban environment: a sociological analysis

The study deals with sociological aspects of leisure infrastructure for children and adolescents, the problems of forming a comfortable urban environment for the socialization of the younger generation. The city appears to be the center of spiritual and technical innovations throughout the modern history of mankind. The space of the city becomes the embodiment and personification of the modern way of life, worldview, at the same time being the center of a variety of activities, saturation of social information and cultural integration. Features of the urban environment affect the personality, consciousness and behavior of children. The paper presents the classification of children's leisure infrastructure by forms of organization and social and cultural benefits. The analysis of the materials on the basis of the focus group, the all-Russian sociological statistics and observations of the authors revealed social demands on the problems of children's leisure activities in the urban environment.