Discourses of the City

Policy and Response in Post–Transitional Barcelona

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ID7724979
AuthorsGary Mcdonogh, Gary W Mcdonogh (University of South Florida, corresponding author)
Year1991
Volume5
Issue1
Pages40-63
Publication date1991-06-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCity & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0893-0465 • E-ISSN: 1548-744X
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1525/city.1991.5.1.40
OpenAlexW2106215739
LanguageEN
Citations received13
References cited7

Contemporary urban planning in barcelona reflects both a historical process through which the city has been defined and a rapid political evolution since the end of the Franco regime, during which urban interests were debated intensely. This article focuses on the emergence of new discourses about the city in the transitional and the current post‐transitional period of Spanish democracy. It also contrasts hegemonic models, as realized in rhetoric, planning, and construction, with other voices from the Raval, a marginal downtown neighborhood that has become a particular focus of urban renovation. The article argues that analysis of the formation of a new orthodoxy in city planning must be nuanced both by critical readings and by appreciation of alternative values in urban life. [Spain, urban planning, urban space, class conflict

Aesthetics · Civil engineering · Democracy · Downtown · Geography · Hegemony · Orthodoxy · Period (music) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Rhetoric · Sociology · Urban planning · Latin American Urban Studies · Law · Public Administration · Urbanism, Landscape, and Tourism Studies

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