| The Mediterranean City in Transition: Social Change and Urban Development Contributor(s): Leontidou, Lila (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521344670 ISBN-13: 9780521344678 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $137.75 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 1990 Annotation: Focusing upon Greater Athens between 1948 and 1981 - the crucial period of the transition - Lila Leontidou explores the role of social classes in urban development. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - Urban - Political Science | Public Policy - City Planning & Urban Development |
| Dewey: 307.760 |
| LCCN: 89007346 |
| Series: Cambridge Human Geography |
| Physical Information: 1.07" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.28 lbs) 316 pages |
| Themes: - Demographic Orientation - Urban |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Postwar capitalist development has involved a transition from polarization toward diffuse urbanization and flexibility. The timing and form of this transition and its effects on spatial structures have varied, as is especially evident in the case of Mediterranean Europe. Focusing upon Greater Athens between 1948 and 1981 - the crucial period of the transition - Lila Leontidou explores the role of social classes in urban development. The emergence of new processes in cities such as Athens, Salonica, Rome, Naples, Milan, Madrid, Barcelona and Lisbon is different in both timing and manner from that of Northern European cities, but, as Dr Leontidou argues, this should not be attributed to poverty or inexplicable cultural peculiarities. Instead interaction between popular spontaneity, economic forces and State control has played a major role. |