This study aimed to investigate the relationship of retired people with urban spaces located in the downtown areas of Florianópolis (SC), based on the theories of Henri Lefèbvre. Incursions to these places were performed with field observation, photographic registries and open interviews with seven retired people. The lefebvrian method of analysis was adopted in three different moments: descriptive, analytical-regressive and historical-genetic. Research findings revealed that the relation of the interviewees with downtown urban spaces of Florianópolis are linked to daily routine, lived as reality and imagination, and many times experiencing the city contradictions, as use-value and exchange-value. Even when they can not find a "place" in the city, they look for ways to participate and insert themselves as actors of the changes being made.
retirement; psychology; urban spaces