City of crisis : : the multiple contestation of southern European cities / / edited by Frank Eckardt and Javier Ruiz Sánchez.

• Funder: Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2016: Backlist Collection
• TeilnehmendeR: Ruiz Sanchez, Javier,; Eckardt, Frank,
• Author: Knowledge Unlatched - KU Select 2016: Backlist Collection
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld, Germany : : Transcript Verlag,, [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Urban studies (Bielefeld, Germany)
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (249 pages) :; illustrations (maps); digital, PDF file(s).
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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.« Detlef Baum, www.socialnet.de, 21.03.2016 Besprochen in: Portal für Politikwissenschaft, 11.02.2016, Matthias Lemke Stadt und Raum, 1 (2016)

Table of 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