TY - BOOK AU - Resina,Joan Ramon AU - UPSO eCollections (University Press Scholarship Online) TI - Barcelona's vocation of modernity: rise and decline of an urban image SN - 9780804787505 AV - DP402 .B373 2008 PY - 2008/// CY - Stanford, Calif. PB - Stanford University Press KW - Sociology, Urban KW - Spain KW - Barcelona KW - Electronic Books N1 - 2; 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; 2; b N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=1055335&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 ER -