City of Crisis
The Multiple Contestation of Southern European Cities
The ongoing crisis in Europe has dramatic impact on the life in many Southern European cities: Unemployment, social deprivation, poverty, political instability, severe cuts in the welfare state budgets and a wide spread feeling of despair have eroded much of the social foundation of the cities.
In this book, contributors from Spain, Greece, Portugal and Italy provide an insight into the complex interference between the different aspects of the crisis. They show that the recent urban crisis is not purely a result of the budgetary problems of the nation state (»austerity urbanism«) but needs to be seen as multiple contestations. The Crisis of the City is therefore understood as a result of a changing nation state, cultural diversity, challenged urban planning and politics and a globalized economy.
Overview Chapters
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Frontmatter
Seiten 1 - 4 -
Content
Seiten 5 - 6 -
City of crisis (Preface)
Seiten 7 - 10 -
City of crisis (Preface)
Seiten 7 - 10 -
City and Crisis: Learning from urban theory
Seiten 11 - 30 -
Crisis and the city
Seiten 31 - 50 -
Spain
Madrid
Seiten 53 - 54 -
Contest Discourses of Austerity in the Urban Margins (A Vision from Barcelona)
Seiten 71 - 86 -
Italy
Urban crisis or urban decay?
Seiten 89 - 108 -
The city and its crises
Seiten 109 - 122 -
When it rains, it pours
Seiten 123 - 152 -
Greece
Greek Spatial Planning and the Crisis
Seiten 155 - 178 -
"The right to the city" in Athens during a crisis era
Seiten 179 - 198 -
State repression, social resistance and the politicization of public space in Greece under fiscal adjustment
Seiten 199 - 212 -
Portugal
Planning and governance in the Portuguese cities in times of European crisis
Seiten 215 - 256 -
Authors
Seiten 257 - 264 -
Backmatter
Seiten 261 - 264
17 August 2015, 264 pages
ISBN: 978-3-8376-2842-5
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