Urban Challenges in Spain and Portugal

Herausgeber: Walliser, Andres; Benach, Nuria

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book aims to show the social and economic consequences of a model of economic growth based on massive investments by financial capital on real-state dvelopments as well as some urban proposals and policies that have been put into practice along the last decade. This book was published a sa special issue of Urban Research and Pract

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 132
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Oktober 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 246mm x 174mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9781032930695
• ISBN-10: 1032930691
• Artikelnr.: 71669809

Autorenporträt

Nuria Benach is a human geographer at the Universitat de Barcelona working on urban issues and critical spatial thinking. Andrés Walliser is an urban sociologist. He is currently an associate professor of sociology at NYU and of urban governance at Hertie School of Governance in Berlin as well as a practitioner in urban policy.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: urban problems and issues in contemporary Spanish and
Portuguese cities Nuria Benach and Andrés Walliser 2. Subversion of
land-use plans and the housing bubble in Spain Eugenio L. Burriel 3. The
process of residential sprawl in Spain: Is it really a problem? Arlinda
García-Coll 4. Catalysing governance in a paradoxical city: the Lisbon
Strategic Charter and the uncertainties of political empowerment in the
Portuguese capital city João Seixas 5. Area-based initiatives and urban
dynamics. The case of the Porto city centre José A. Rio Fernandes 6. The
five challenges of urban rehabilitation. The Catalan experience Oriol Nel·
lo 7. Urban governance and regeneration policies in historic city centres:
Madrid and Barcelona Ismael Blanco, Jordi Bonet and Andres Walliser 8.
Epilogue Nuria Benach and Andrés Walliser