Public-sector Intervention in Embodying the New Economy in Inner Urban Areas: The Barcelona Experience

Antònia Casellas and Montserrat Pallares-Barbera
Additional contact information
Antònia Casellas: Department of Geography, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Edifici B, Campus UAB, Bellaterra, Barcelona, 08193, Spain, antonia.casellas@uab.cat
Montserrat Pallares-Barbera: Department of Geography, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Edifici B, Campus UAB, Bellaterra, Barcelona, 08193, Spain, montserrat.pallares@uab.cat

Urban Studies, 2009, vol. 46, issue 5-6, 1137-1155

Abstract: This article investigates the urban and economic revitalisation of a traditional industrial working-class neighbourhood into a knowledge-based economic district. It explores why and how this new district is the result of an assertive public policy led by Barcelona's city council and implemented by a quasi-public agency. The project represents the most important urban-growth strategy in the city at the turn of the century and also exemplifies the advantages and shortcomings of many of the policy elements that have contributed to the radical transformation of Barcelona in recent decades. The article further highlights methodological challenges regarding the conceptualisation and operationalisation of new economic activities and it discusses the spatial and uncertain economic consequences of this ambitious approach by the local government.

Date: 2009
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0042098009103858 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:urbstu:v:46:y:2009:i:5-6:p:1137-1155

DOI: 10.1177/0042098009103858

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Urban Studies from Urban Studies Journal Limited
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().