Social Movements and Public Policies in Southern European Cities

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Introduction: Social Change, Political Discontent, and Urban Movements in Southern European Cities

   • Laura Fregolent, Oriol Nel·lo

   Pages 1-11

3. Urban Challenges and Collective Action

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-13

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   2. Urban Movements and the Challenges of the European City

      • Oriol Nel·lo

      Pages 15-32

   3. From Protest to Program Berlin’s Anti-gentrification-Movement Since Reunification

      • Andrej Holm

      Pages 33-52

   4. Making Sense of (New) Social Mobilisations, Conflicts and Contention in the Tourist City: A Typology

      • Claire Colomb, Johannes Novy

      Pages 53-74

   5. The City, Local Conflicts and Public Policies

      • Francesco Indovina

      Pages 75-88

4. Urban Movements, Unity in Diversity

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 89-89

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   2. “The City Belongs to Us!”: Claiming Social Rights and Urban Citizenship in the Face of Urban Renewal Programs in a Mediterranean French City

      • David Giband

      Pages 91-112

   3. Social Innovation Against Socio-spatial Segregation: The Case of Catalonia

      • Ismael Blanco

      Pages 113-135

   4. Can Social Innovation Transform Local Governments? The Experience of Naples

      • Elena Ostanel

      Pages 137-149

   5. Fighting Against Monocultures: Wine-Growing and Tourism in the Veneto Region

      • Matteo Basso, Laura Fregolent

      Pages 151-165

   6. The Reconfiguration of Urban Movements and Politics in Lisbon

      • João Seixas, António Brito Guterres

      Pages 167-179

The book analyzes the impact of urban movements on government and public policies in a context of rapid urban transformations, public policy crises and increasing social inequalities. The essays show how the impact of the movements is increasing and has effects both in the orientation of the policies, as in their form of management and its effects. The authors are leading scholars from universities and research centers in Spain, Italy, Portugal, France, Germany and the United Kingdom.

• Citizens' Action
• Public Policies
• Spatial Injustices
• Urban Movements
• Urban Segregation
• Urban Renewal
• Urban social mobilization
• landscape/regional and urban planning

• Department of Architecture and Arts, Università Iuav di Venezia, Venezia, Italy

  Laura Fregolent

• Department de Geografia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

  Oriol Nel·lo

Laura Fregolent. Architect and urban planner. Department of Architecture and Arts, Università Iuav di Venezia. Co-Director Archivio di Studi Urbani e Regionali. Author: Conflitti e territorio (Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2014); Città e politiche in tempi di crisi, (Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2014); Growing Compact (Milano, FrancoAngeli, 2016).

Oriol Nel·lo. Geographer. Department of Geography, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. President, Advisory Committee Barcelona’s Pla de Barris (Neighborhood Plan). Author: La ciudad en movimiento (Madrid, Díaz & Pons, 2015), Cities in the 21^st Century (New York, Routledge, 2016, with R. Mele), Barrios y Crisis. Crisis económica, segregación urbana e innovación social en Cataluña (Valencia, Tirant lo Blanch, 2018, with I. Blanco).

Policies and ethics