Resina, Joan Ramon.

Barcelona's vocation of modernity rise and decline of an urban image / Joan Ramon Resina. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, (c)2008. - 1 online resource (x, 272 pages) : illustrations, plans.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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 circularity.



9780804787505


Sociology, Urban--Spain--Barcelona.


Electronic Books.

DP402 / .B373 2008