Iberian Cities

List of contents

Chapter 1: Tough Beauty: Bilbao as Ruin, Architecture, and Allegory; Chapter 2: Santiago de Compostela or the Obsession with Identity; Chapter 3: A Walk about Lisbon; Chapter 4: Getting to Salamanca (and Away): One Approach, Nine Vistas, and a Retrospective that Does Not Take Place; Chapter 5: Madrid's Palimpsest: Reading the Capital against the Grain; Chapter 6: Madrid: From “Años de Hambre” to Years of Desire; Chapter 7: A Sad Diagnosis of a Sad Town: Granada and the Dream of the Recumbent Woman; Chapter 8: Modern Spaces:Building Barcelona; Chapter 9: A Walk through Identity in the Gardens of Catalonia; Chapter 10: Valencia: Cultural Spaces, Economics, and Territory

About the author

Joan Ramon Resina

Summary

This multi-disciplinary study explores the explosion of cultural, social, linguistic, and architectural development in urban and rural settlements on and surrounding the Iberian peninsula during the 20th Century.

Product details

• Assisted by: Joan Ramon Resina (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.06.2001
• EAN: 9780815334859
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-3485-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 216 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 660 g
• Series: Hispanic Issues
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Portugal, Cultural Studies, Spain, 20th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social groups, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social groups, communities and identities