Societal Responses to Changes in the Production System

The Case of Barcelona Metropolitan Region

Bibliographic Data

ID10860988
AuthorsJoan-Eugeni Sánchez (Universitat de Barcelona, corresponding author)
Year1992
Volume29
Issue6
Pages949-963
Publication date1992-08-01
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueUrban Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0042-0980 • E-ISSN: 1360-063X
PublisherSAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1080/00420989220080891
OpenAlexW2166433516
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited1

Changes in economic and production activities have affected Barcelona. Three important processes can be identified: the process of industrial restructuring since the 1960s; innovation and technological change in the productive process; and the integration of the Spanish economy within the European Community. A societal response matrix, comprising agents at all spatial scales, applied to the metropolitan area of Barcelona is proposed in order to analyse the role of agents, policies and strategies in the process of economic and urban revitalisation. In Barcelona's case, it is evident that at present the public sphere is dominant in that its actions encourage other agents, whilst the private sector appears to be led by public initiatives. At the local scale the Barcelona city council shows a clear dynamic both in long-range actions, e.g. the Olympic Games, and as an agent dynamising important public projects and promoting the participation of other economic agents, both public and private, at all scales: the Strategic Plan, a Technical Park, the cities lobby, etc

Business · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economic policy · Economic restructuring · Economic system · Economics · Geography · Metropolitan area · Order (exchange · Process (computing · Production (economics · Restructuring · Scale (ratio · Finance · Latin American Urban Studies · Regional Development and Innovation · Urbanism, Landscape, and Tourism Studies

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