City of Crisis : The Multiple Contestation of Southern European Cities

Eckardt, Frank (EDT); Sanchez, Javier Ruiz (EDT)

ISBN 10: 3837628426 / ISBN 13: 9783837628425

Edité par transcript publishing, 2015

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• Titre: City of Crisis : The Multiple Contestation of Southern European Cities
• Éditeur: transcript publishing
• Date de parution: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 3837628426
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9783837628425
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• État de l'article: New

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Synopsis

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.

À propos de l?auteur

Frank Eckardt (PhD) holds a professorship for urban studies and social research at the Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany. Javier Ruiz Sánchez (PhD) is a professor for urban planning at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain.