Today the sphere of leisure is essential for a person. It is leisure that forms a person through social and educational potential. The ideal place for the implementation of social and educational functions of leisure was the house of culture. The house of culture is a creative Association and a kind of cultural center. However, at the moment its role in residential areas is significantly reduced. The relevance of the work is due to the fact that there is a need for the revival of the phenomenon of The house of culture in large cities and small settlements. To do this, it is necessary to track the current status of cultural centers in different settlements.The subject of the culture House of the city out of the city and space. The aim of the work is to determine the place of the house of culture in different spatial and social environments. Based on the goal, we have set the following tasks: * Define the concept of leisure; * To characterize the system of urban space; * To determine the features of the existence of out-of-city space; * Describe the place of the house of culture in a large city;* To determine the place of the house of culture in the environment of small settlements.