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City of crisis: the multiple contestation of Southern European cities
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Abstract 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 t... view more
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.... view less
Keywords
Europe; town; civil society; crisis; economy; globalization; urban planning; sociology; transformation; urban research
Classification
Sociology of Settlements and Housing, Urban Sociology
Macrosociology, Analysis of Whole Societies
Document language
English
Publication Year
2015
Publisher
transcript Verlag
City
Bielefeld
Page/Pages
264 p.
Series
Urban Studies
DOI
https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839428429
ISBN
978-3-8394-2842-9
Status
Published Version; reviewed
Licence
Creative Commons - Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0