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City of Crisis The Multiple Contestation of Southern European Cities Frank Eckardt, Javier Ruiz Sánchez
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Urban studies (Bielefeld, Germany)
- Urban Studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- City.
- Crisis.
- Europe.
- Planning.
- Transformation.
- Sociology.
- Globalization.
- Economy.
- Civil Society.
- Urban Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- City.
- Crisis.
- Europe.
- Planning.
- Transformation.
- Sociology.
- Globalization.
- Economy.
- Civil Society.
- Urban Studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (249 pages) : illustrations (maps); digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Eckardt et al. (eds.), City of Crisis The Multiple Contestation of Southern European Cities
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2015
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- text file
- Biography/History:
- Frank Eckardt is a political scientist and a professor for urban studies and social research at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. In 2007 he was a guest Professor at Science Po Paris and from 2008 till 2010 he was an acting professor for urban sociology at the Goethe-University Frankfurt. His main field of research are social inequalities and cultural diversity in the city.
- Javier Ruiz Sánchez (PhD) is a professor for urban planning at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain.
- 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. 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.
- »Eine wichtige Bereicherung der stadtsoziologischen Debatte um die europäische Stadt.«
- Besprochen in:Portal für Politikwissenschaft, 11.02.2016, Matthias LemkeStadt und Raum, 1 (2016)
- »This book discovered [...] some new aspects of the theoretical discussion in urban sociology, which are interesting for European comparison studies.«
- Contents:
- Frontmatter 1 Content 5 City of crisis (Preface) 7 City and Crisis: Learning from urban theory 11 Crisis and the city 31 Madrid 53 Contest Discourses of Austerity in the Urban Margins (A Vision from Barcelona) 71 Urban crisis or urban decay? 89 The city and its crises 109 When it rains, it pours 123 Greek Spatial Planning and the Crisis 155 "The right to the city" in Athens during a crisis era 179 State repression, social resistance and the politicization of public space in Greece under fiscal adjustment 199 Planning and governance in the Portuguese cities in times of European crisis 215 Authors 257
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
- This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0 http://www.transcript-verlag.de/open-access-bei-transcript
- ISBN:
- 9783839428429
- 3839428424
- OCLC:
- 1013947197
- Access Restriction:
- Open access Unrestricted online access
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