Urban Change and the European Left

Tales from the New Barcelona

Donald McNeill

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Routledge
24 June 1999

Architecture; Institutions & learned societies: general; Urban communities; Marxism & Communism; Socialism & left-of-centre democratic ideologies; Human geography

Urban Change and the European Left takes us on a journey through the cityscapes of one of the favorite holiday destinations of the contemporary European left. Taking five themes current to debates on the future of socialism in the city - Marxism and memory; European regionalism and city-states; social democrat new realism; the future of the urban social movements celebrated by Manuel Castells; and a designer' socialism of architecture and public space - the book looks at the way politicians and critics use the city to ground their political messages. Through the mixing of methods and genres, the book explores local narratives of urban change through ethnography, biography, travelogue, and social history. Drawing on novels, architectural commentaries, urban plans, political speeches, history and autobiography, Urban Change and the European Left provides accounts of public art, architecture, grassroots struggle from the SEAT car factory to the peripheral housing estates of Nou Barris, battles for control of the 1992 Olympics, and the city and Catalan identity. Containing critical commentary on Barcelona previously unavailable in English, this book helps make sense of the shape of contemporary urban change and describes the

way in which cities are central to the construction of place-based political identities.

By: Donald McNeill
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 550g
ISBN: 9780415170628
ISBN 10: 0415170621
Pages: 210
Publication Date: 24 June 1999
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Donald McNeill is a lecturer in Geography at the University of Strathclyde.

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