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

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...

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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).
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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