City of Crisis: The Multiple Contestation of Southern European Cities
In: Urban Studies
Cover -- Content -- City of crisis (Preface) -- City and Crisis: Learning from urban theory -- Crisis and the city. Neoliberalism, austerity planning and the production of space -- Spain -- Madrid. A tale of an ambitious city that failed to fulfil its global vision -- Contest Discourses of Austerity in the Urban Margins (A Vision from Barcelona) -- Italy -- Urban crisis or urban decay? Italian cities facing the effects of a long wave towards privatization of urban policies and planning -- The city and its crises -- When it rains, it pours. Urban poverty in a metropolitan suburb during the crisis period -- Greece -- Greek Spatial Planning and the Crisis -- "The right to the city" in Athens during a crisis era. Between inversion, assimilation and going beyond -- State repression, social resistance and the politicization of public space in Greece under fiscal adjustment -- Portugal -- Planning and governance in the Portuguese cities in times of European crisis -- Authors.