TY - BOOK ID - 5866825 TI - The mediterranean city in transition : social change and urban development PY - 1990 SN - 0521344670 0521025257 0511522207 0511828519 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - stedelijke ontwikkeling KW - sociale veranderingen KW - Cities and towns KW - -Cities and towns KW - -Urbanization KW - -Cities and towns, Movement to KW - Urban development KW - Urban systems KW - Social history KW - Sociology, Rural KW - Sociology, Urban KW - Urban policy KW - Rural-urban migration KW - Global cities KW - Municipalities KW - Towns KW - Urban areas KW - Human settlements KW - Growth KW - -History KW - -Case studies KW - History KW - -stedelijke ontwikkeling KW - -Growth KW - Urbanization KW - Cities and towns, Movement to KW - Growth&delete& KW - History&delete& KW - Case studies KW - Earth Sciences KW - Geography UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5866825 AB - Postwar capitalist development has involved a transition from polarization toward diffuse urbanization and flexibility. The timing and form of this transition and its effects on spatial structures have varied, as is especially evident in the case of Mediterranean Europe. Focusing upon Greater Athens between 1948 and 1981 - the crucial period of the transition - Lila Leontidou explores the role of social classes in urban development. The emergence of new processes in cities such as Athens, Salonica, Rome, Naples, Milan, Madrid, Barcelona and Lisbon is different in both timing and manner from that of northern European cities, but, as Dr Leontidou argues, this should not be attributed to poverty or inexplicable cultural peculiarities. Instead interaction between popular spontaneity, economic forces and State control has played a major role. ER -