This paper explores neoliberalisation and its counter-currents through a six-case study of austerity urbanism in Spain …. Welfarism survives austerity in felicitous circumstances. And, where contentious politics thrive, as in Spain, it holds out the …

It is a fact that the urban sprawl, known as the process of gradual spread out of urbanization has become a worldwide … what, it is called Post-Fordism economy and some authors have characterized as counter-urbanization (Berry) desurbanization … increasing consumption of land, the excessive use of land as a scarce resource, it is a constant in the urbanization process in …