Barcelona's vocation of modernity : rise and decline of an urban image /

The work traces the development of an urban image through texts that foreground key social and historical issues. The author establishes a literary framework for the evolution of the image of Barcelona's modernity through the 1980s, when the consciousness of modernity took on an ironic circular...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Resina, Joan Ramon
Autor Corporativo: UPSO eCollections (University Press Scholarship Online)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, Ã2008.
Temas:
Sociology, Urban > Spain > Barcelona.
Sociologie urbaine > Espagne > Barcelone.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > Urban.
HISTORY > Europe > Spain & Portugal.
Manners and customs
Sociology, Urban
Barcelona (Spain) > Social life and customs.
Spain > Barcelona
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : the city as social form
  • The bourgeois city
  • Imagined city
  • Like moths to a lamp : foreigners in Barcelona's red-light district
  • A sojourn with the dead
  • The divided city and the divided self
  • The city of eternal returns
  • From the Olympic torch to the universal forum of cultures : the after-image of Barcelona's modernity.

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