City of crisis : the multiple contestation of southern European cities / Frank Eckardt, Javier Ruiz Sanchez (eds.).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Eckardt, Frank, editor.

Ruiz Sanchez, Javier, editor.

John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

Series:

Urban studies (Bielefeld, Germany)

Urban studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology, Urban--Europe, Southern--History--21st century.

Sociology, Urban.

Urban economics.

Economic conditions.

History.

Europe, Southern--Economic conditions--21st century.

Europe, Southern.

Economic history.

Southern Europe.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

260 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Bielefeld : Transcript, [2015]

Summary:

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. It is therefore regarded in connection to the conditions of a changing nation state, cultural diversity, challenged urban planning and politics and a globalised economy. Book jacket.

Contents:

City and Crisis: Learning from urban theory / Frank Eckardt Eckardt, Frank 11

Crisis and the city: Neoliberalism, austerity planning and the production of space / Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago Sevilla-Buitrago, Álvaro 31

Madrid: A tale of an ambitious city that failed to fulfil its global vision / José Miguel Fernández-Güell Fernández-Güell, José Miguel 53

Contest Discourses of Austerity in the Urban Margins (A Vision from Barcelona) / Nuria Benach Benach, Nuria 71

Urban crisis or urban decay? Italian cities facing the effects of a long wave towards privatization of urban policies and planning / Maria Cristina Gibelli Gibelli, Maria Cristina 89

The city and its crises / Francesco Indovina Indovina, Francesco 109

When it rains, it pours: Urban poverty in a metropolitan suburb during the crisis period / Alberto Violante Violante, Alberto 123

Greek Spatial Planning and the Crisis / Maria Zifou Zifou, Maria 155

"The right to the city" in Athens during a crisis era: Between inversion, assimilation and going beyond / Vaso Makrygianni Makrygianni, Vaso, Charalampos Tsavdaroglou Tsavdaroglou, Charalampos 179

State repression, social resistance and the politlcization of public space in Greece under fiscal adjustment / Maria Markantonatou Markantonatou, Maria 199

Planning and governance In the Portuguese cities in times of European crisis / João Seixas Seixas, João, José Carlos Mota Mota, José Carlos 215.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John G. Hartman Memorial Library Fund.

ISBN:

9783837628425

3837628426

OCLC:

899707280

Publisher Number:

99966717501