Overview
- Analyzes material spaces as well as presentations of them from such sites as literature, film, photography, graphic novels, urban furniture, and advertisements
- Focuses on Barcelona to illustrate the conflicting nature of the "model city" in the neoliberal era
- Highlights how the particular contingencies of Barcelona's spatial neoliberalization have reconfigured everyday knowledge and urban experience on a global scal
Part of the book series: Hispanic Urban Studies (HUS)
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Keywords
- Barcelona Model
- Ideological Construction
- Material Deconstruction
- 15M Protests
- Public Everyday Space
About this book
This book explores how everyday practices in public space (sitting, playing, walking, etc.) challenge the increase of top-down control in the global city. Public Everyday Space focuses on post-Olympic Barcelona—a time of unprecedented levels of gentrification, branding, mass tourism, and immigration. Drawing from examples observed in public spaces (streets, plazas, sidewalks, and empty lots), as well as in cultural representation (film, photography, literature), this book exposes the quiet agency of those excluded from urban decision-making but who nonetheless find ways to carve out spatial autonomy for themselves. Absent from the map or postcard, the quicksilver spatial phenomena documented in this book can make us rethink our definitions of culture, politics, inclusion, legality, architecture, urban planning, and public space.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Megan Saltzman, PhD, teaches in the Department of Spanish, Latina/o/x and Latin American and Studies at Mount Holyoke College, USA and in the Five College Consortium of Massachusetts Architectural Studies Program.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Public Everyday Space
Book Subtitle: Cultural Politics in Neoliberal Barcelona
Authors: Megan Saltzman
Series Title: Hispanic Urban Studies
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-57795-6Due: 07 October 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-57798-7Due: 07 October 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-57796-3Due: 07 October 2024
Series ISSN: 2662-5830
Series E-ISSN: 2662-5849
Edition Number: 1
Number of Illustrations: 36 illustrations in colour