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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      23 November 2009
      26 April 1990
      ISBN:
      9780511522208
      9780521344678
      9780521025256
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511522208
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.59kg, 316 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.476kg, 316 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Human Geography, Geography, Planning and Urban Geography
      Series:
      Cambridge Human Geography
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    Subjects:
    Human Geography, Geography, Planning and Urban Geography
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    Cambridge Human Geography
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    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.

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    "Using secondary sources for comparisons with other Mediterranean cities and archival studies for Athens, Leontidou has amassed considerable evidence--much of it presented in tables and maps--about how working-class migrants provided shelter for themselves in an unregulated building economy. Taken as an empirical account, Leontidou's book fills a gap in the literature." Josef W. Konvitz, Journal of Interdisciplinary History

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