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For example, Ajuntament de Barcelona, Inicis de la urbanística municipal de Barcelona: Mostra dels fons municipals de plans i projectes, 1750-1930 (Barcelona, 1985); Ramon Grau and Marina López, eds., Exposció Universal de Barcelona: Llibre del Centenari, 1888-1988 (Barcelona, 1988); Albert Garcia Espuche and Salvador Rueda, eds., La ciutat sostenible (Barcelona, 1999). Barcelona has a distinguished historiographic tradition that has promoted scholarship on social history, architecture, and urbanism, among other themes, although the Franco period weighed heavily on these fields despite the pioneering work of Jaume Vicens Vives, Industrials i Politics del Segle XIX (Barcelona, 1958) and Pierre Vilar, La Catalogne dans l’Espagne Moderne (Paris, 1962). The contributions of urban geography are also important in linking form and social history (e.g., Francesch Carreras Candi, Geografia General de Catalunya [Barcelona, 1909-1919]; Carles Carreras Verdaguer, Geografia urbana de Barcelona: Espai Mediterrani, Temps Europe [Barcelona, 1992]; Carles Carreras Verdaguer, La Barcelona literària: Una introducció geográfica [Barcelona, 2006]). The transition period of the 1970s and 1980s witnessed a florescence of historical and urban studies ranging from international scholars to official and public volumes (Jaume Sobreques Callico, Historia de Barcelona [Barcelona, 1991]) and the strong public voice of the historical review L’Avenç (founded in 1977 and not to be confused with the similar important nineteenth-century journal). As the 1992 Olympics drew attention to the city, popular scholarly histories such as Robert Hughes’s Barcelona (New York, 1992) and Manuel Vázquez Montálban’s personal, irascible, and delightful Barcelonas (New York, 1992) expanded readings of the city, although Oyón and others lamented the problematic development of urban history in the city.
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James Amelang, "Comparing Cities: A Barcelona Model," Urban History 34 (2007): 173-89. In limiting this review article (generally) to histories published since 2000 and issues of urban form and society of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, then, I am still dealing with only a selection of the many works in social history, economic history, political history, intellectual studies, and cultural history that participate in academic dialogues as well as literature, memoirs, and conversations that rehearse history in the public sphere of the city. For example, Chris Ealham’s Class, Culture and Conflict in Barcelona, 1898-1937 (London, 2005) and Angel Smith, ed., Red Barcelona: Social Protest and Labour Mobilization in the Twentieth Century (London, 2002) incorporate spatial considerations into their analyses of working-class activism and can be reread in the light of Oyón’s detailed new work.
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This text relies on two preliminary versions in Castilian published in 1992 (Magrana) and 2004 (Serbal).
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Resina has raised questions of working-class and urban transformations in this era in other writings such as his lengthy essay "From Rose of Fire to City of Ivory" in J. R. Resina and D. Ingenshay, eds., After-Images of the City (Ithaca, 2003), 75-122. This discussion of foreign gazes on the city through literature has been tackled by many scholars (see Carreras Verdaguer, La Barcelona literària).
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The impact of Picasso as an anchor for knowledge of the city faces all analysts; see Temma Kaplan, Red City, Blue Period: Social Movements in Picasso’s Barcelona (Berkeley, 1992).
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J. L. Oyón, J. Maldonado, and E. Griful, Barcelona 1930: Un atlas social (Barcelona, 2001). For English readers, Oyón published a substantial abstract of this book, with some maps, as an article, "The Split of a Working-Class City: Urban Space, Immigration and Anarchism in Inter-War Barcelona, 1914-1936," Urban History 36 (2009): 86-112. The historical atlas project, under the aegis of the Centre de Cultura Contemporània, projected volumes combining comprehensive mapping and illustration with essays by prominent scholars on major cities in volumes that would permit systematic comparison. In the end, the only volumes that came out were those on the Iberian Peninsula and on France: Manuel Guàrdia, Francisco Javier Monclús, and José Luis Oyón, eds., Atlas histórico de ciudades europeas, I (Barcelona, 1994); and Jean-Luc Pinol, ed., Atlas historique des villes de France (Barcelona, 1996).
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See Ealham, Class, Culture and Conflict.
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E.g., Garcia Espuche and Rueda, La ciutat sostenible; Capel, El modelo Barcelona; Ignasi Aldomà, La lluita per l’aigua a Catalunya (Lleida, Spain, 2007); Richard T. Forman, Urban Regions: Ecology and Planning beyond the City (Cambridge, UK, 2008).
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Among other critiques, see Manuel Delgado, La ciudad mentirosa: Fraude y miseria del "modelo" Barcelona (Madrid, 2007); Gary McDonogh, "Discourses of the City: Policy and Response in Post-Transitional Barcelona," in Setha Low, ed., Theorizing the City: The New Urban Anthropology Reader (New Brunswick, 1999), 342-76; Donald McNeil, Urban Change and the European Left: Tales from the New Barcelona (London, 1999); Joaquim Roglan, Què esteu fent amb Barcelona? (Barcelona, 2005) and Manuel Trallero and Sergi Rodoredo, Barcelona 2004 como MENTIRA (Barcelona, 2004).