Cities in Crisis: Socio-spatial impacts of the economic crisis in Southern European cities

In: Regions and Cities

In: Regions and Cities Ser.

Abstract

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Cities in crisis: setting the scene for reflecting urban and regional futures in times of austerity -- PART I Cities in crisis: theoretical framework -- 2 The economic and financial crisis: origins and consequences -- 3 Socio-political and socio-spatial implications of the economic crisis and austerity politics in Southern European cities -- 4 Crisis and urban change: reflections, strategies, and approaches -- PART II Origins of the crisis and its socio-spatial impacts on Southern European cities -- 5 The neoliberal model of the city in Southern Europe: a comparative approach to Valencia and Madrid -- 6 Governance and local government in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area: the effects of the crisis on the reorganisation of municipal services and support for people -- 7 Athens, a capital in crisis: tracing the socio-spatial impacts -- 8 A new landscape of urban social movements: reflections on urban unrest in Southern European cities -- PART III Urban planning and the economic crisis in Southern European cities -- 9 Urban planning and territorial management in Portugal: antecedents and impacts of the 2008 financial and economic crisis -- 10 Greek cities in crisis: context, evidence, response -- 11 Crisis and urban shrinkage from an Italian perspective -- PART IV Crisis as driver of change? -- 12 Potentials and restrictions on the changing dynamics of the political spaces in the Lisbon Metropolitan Area -- 13 Rethinking Barcelona: changes experienced as a result of social and economic crisis -- 14 From crisis to crisis: dynamics of change and emerging models of governance in the Turin Metropolitan Area -- 15 Urban rescaling: a post-crisis scenario for a Spanish city: Valencia and its megaregion.