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Informationen zum Autor Nuria Benach is a human geographer at the Universitat de Barcelona working on urban issues and critical spatial thinking.Andrés Walliser is an urban sociologist. He is currently an associate professor of sociology at NYU and of urban governance at Hertie School of Governance in Berlin as well as a practitioner in urban policy. Zusammenfassung This book aims to show the social and economic consequences of a model of economic growth based on massive investments by financial capital on real-state dvelopments as well as some urban proposals and policies that have been put into practice along the last decade. This book was published a sa special issue of Urban Research and Practice. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: urban problems and issues in contemporary Spanish and Portuguese cities Nuria Benach and Andrés Walliser 2. Subversion of land-use plans and the housing bubble in Spain Eugenio L. Burriel 3. The process of residential sprawl in Spain: Is it really a problem? Arlinda García-Coll 4. Catalysing governance in a paradoxical city: the Lisbon Strategic Charter and the uncertainties of political empowerment in the Portuguese capital city João Seixas 5. Area-based initiatives and urban dynamics. The case of the Porto city centre José A. Rio Fernandes 6. The five challenges of urban rehabilitation. The Catalan experience Oriol Nel · lo 7. Urban governance and regeneration policies in historic city centres: Madrid and Barcelona Ismael Blanco, Jordi Bonet and Andres Walliser 8. Epilogue Nuria Benach and Andrés Walliser
