Thinking Barcelona: Ideologies of a Global City

by Edgar Illas

Thinking Barcelona studies the ideological work that redefined Barcelona during the 1980s and adapted the city to a new economy of tourism, culture, and services. The 1992 Olympic Games offered to the municipal government a double opportunity to establish an internal consensus and launch Barcelona as a happy combination of European cosmopolitanism and Mediterranean rootedness. The staging of this municipal "euphoric postpolitics," which entailed an...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846318327
• ISBN13: 9781846318320
• Release Date: October 2012
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.4"