The brand-making of Madrid Global City from the old historic neighbourhood of Lavapiés: a diachronic genealogy of urban policies.
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| Authors: | Mazorra, Álvaro1 (AUTHOR) amazorra@poli.uned.es, Nofre, Jordi2 (AUTHOR), Garcia-Ruiz, Manuel3 (AUTHOR) |
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| Source: | European Planning Studies. Nov2025, Vol. 33 Issue 11, p2044-2063. 20p. |
| Subject Terms: | *Urban renewal, *Globalization, Urban policy, Social classes, Historic buildings, Urbanization, Cities & towns, Neighborhoods |
| Geographic Terms: | Madrid (Spain), Spain |
| Abstract: | The transformation of Madrid (Spain) from a small town in the centre of the Iberian Peninsula into a global financial, economic and political hub in the Ibero-American context in less than a century is unique in Europe. However, it has attracted little scholarly attention outside the interdisciplinary field of Spanish urban studies. By taking the formerly working-class neighbourhood of Lavapiés in Madrid as case study, and tracing the genealogy of urban policies as analytical lens, this article demonstrates how the construction of Madrid as a global city is historically rooted not only in the rise of neoliberal urbanism in Spain during the 1990s, but also in the creation of a dual city dating back to the mid-sixteenth century. The article concludes by arguing that the construction of so-called Madrid Global City has deep historical, class-based, and ideological roots which should be considered as a mechanism of continuous urban extractivism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| Abstract: | The transformation of Madrid (Spain) from a small town in the centre of the Iberian Peninsula into a global financial, economic and political hub in the Ibero-American context in less than a century is unique in Europe. However, it has attracted little scholarly attention outside the interdisciplinary field of Spanish urban studies. By taking the formerly working-class neighbourhood of Lavapiés in Madrid as case study, and tracing the genealogy of urban policies as analytical lens, this article demonstrates how the construction of Madrid as a global city is historically rooted not only in the rise of neoliberal urbanism in Spain during the 1990s, but also in the creation of a dual city dating back to the mid-sixteenth century. The article concludes by arguing that the construction of so-called Madrid Global City has deep historical, class-based, and ideological roots which should be considered as a mechanism of continuous urban extractivism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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| ISSN: | 09654313 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/09654313.2025.2537339 |
