Smith, A (2002) Barcelona through the European Mirror: From Red and Black to Claret and Blue. In: Smith, A, (ed.) Red Barcelona: Social Protest and Labour Mobilization in the Twentieth Century. Routledge/Canada Blanch Studies on Contemporary Spain . Routledge , Abingdon, UK , pp. 1-16. ISBN 9780415279055
Abstract
Over the past decade Barcelona has become one of the most glamorous cities in Europe. It already enjoyed some reputation amongst cultural elites as the home of the young Pablo Picasso and capital of Salvador Dalí and Joan Miró’s Catalonia. This reputation was greatly enhanced in the 1980s as the city’s early twentieth-century modernista (Catalan Art Nouveau) architectural heritage came into fashion. Antoni Gaudí in particular came to be seen, for the first time, as an architect of international standing and his buildings were converted into major tourist attractions. The end of the 1980s saw the beginnings of a massive urban renewal programme which was to underpin the celebration of the 1992 Olympic Games and bring the city to wider attention. In a matter of five years Barcelona undertook probably the most ambitious urban and architectural development of any European city since the post-war reconstruction of western Europe. Part of the decaying industrial suburb of Poble Nou on the shoreline was razed to the ground and replaced by the Olympic Village, port leisure facilities and miles of new beaches. Across Barcelona, on the mountain of Montjuïc, the Olympic Ring of stadiums was built, and this was all accompanied by the construction of a new system of ring roads.
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Item Type: | Book Section |
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Keywords: | Barcelona |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Languages Cultures & Societies (Leeds) > Spanish & Portuguese (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 10 Sep 2019 15:59 |
Last Modified: | 10 Sep 2019 15:59 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Routledge |
Series Name: | Routledge/Canada Blanch Studies on Contemporary Spain |
Identification Number: | 10.4324/9780203219379 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:136137 |