<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>