Urban Change and the European Left

<p><em>Urban Change and the European Left</em> looks at the way politicians and critics use the city to ground their political messages.<br>The book explores local narratives of urban change through ethnography, biography, travelogue, and social history. Drawing on novels, architectural commentaries, urban plans, political speeches, history and autobiography, <em>Urban Change and the European Left</em> provides accounts of public art, architecture, grassroots struggles, battles for control of the 1992 Olympics, and the city and Catalan identity.</p> Introduction The New Barcelona, The city and the European Left, Urban reportage 1 A rough guide to the New Barcelona 2 Red heritage: Manuel Vázquez Montalbán as socialist flâneur 3 Battles for Barcelona 4 The gospel according to Pasqual: mayor Maragall’s new urban realism 5 Manuel Castells in the Eurocity 6 Designer socialism: the politics of architecture and public Space 7 Progressive futures?