City of Crisis: The Multiple Contestation of Southern European Cities

Open Access Published by transcript Verlag 2015

City of Crisis

The Multiple Contestation of Southern European Cities

Edited by: Frank Eckardt and Javier Ruiz Sánchez
Funded by: Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2016: Backlist Collection

In the series Urban Studies

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839428429

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Frank Eckardt holds a PhD in political sciences and is professor for urban studies and social reseach at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. His research focusses on the issue of migration, cultural diversity, and social inequalities in the city.
Javier Ruiz Sánchez (PhD) is a professor for urban planning at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain.

Reviews

»Eine wichtige Bereicherung der stadtsoziologischen Debatte um die europäische Stadt.«
Detlef Baum, www.socialnet.de, 21.03.2016

Besprochen in:

Portal für Politikwissenschaft, 11.02.2016, Matthias Lemke
Stadt und Raum, 1 (2016)

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Frontmatter Open Access Download PDF	1
Content Open Access Download PDF	5
City of crisis (Preface) Frank Eckardt and Javier Ruiz Sánchez Open Access Download PDF	7
City and Crisis: Learning from urban theory Frank Eckardt Open Access Download PDF	11
Crisis and the city Neoliberalism, austerity planning and the production of space Álvaro Sevilla-Buitrago Open Access Download PDF	31
Spain
Madrid A tale of an ambitious city that failed to fulfil its global vision José Miguel Fernández-Güell Open Access Download PDF	53
Contest Discourses of Austerity in the Urban Margins (A Vision from Barcelona) Nuria Benach Open Access Download PDF	71
Italy
Urban crisis or urban decay? Italian cities facing the effects of a long wave towards privatization of urban policies and planning Maria Cristina Gibelli Open Access Download PDF	89
The city and its crises Francesco Indovina Open Access Download PDF	109
When it rains, it pours Urban poverty in a metropolitan suburb during the crisis period Alberto Violante Open Access Download PDF	123
Greece
Greek Spatial Planning and the Crisis Maria Zifou Open Access Download PDF	155
“The right to the city” in Athens during a crisis era Between inversion, assimilation and going beyond Vaso Makrygianni and Charalampos Tsavdaroglou Open Access Download PDF	179
State repression, social resistance and the politicization of public space in Greece under fiscal adjustment Maria Markantonatou Open Access Download PDF	199
Portugal
Planning and governance in the Portuguese cities in times of European crisis João Seixas and José Carlos Mota Open Access Download PDF	215
Authors Open Access Download PDF	257

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Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Edition: 1. Aufl.
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 264
Keywords: Crisis; Europe; Planning; Transformation; Sociology; Globalization; Economy; Civil Society; Urban Studies

eBook

Published: August 27, 2015
ISBN: 9783839428429