La España de las ciudades
Subtitle: El Estado frente a la sociedad urbana
Publisher: ED LIBROS
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Barcelona (Spain)
Table of contents: title: In 1987 there were on the planet just over a hundred agglomerations of more than half a million inhabitants. Now, almost two hundred have more than three million. 54 percent of humanity lives in big cities. In Spain there are five metropolitan regions that exceed one million inhabitants (Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Seville and Malaga-Costa del Sol) and ten with a population between half a million and a million (Bilbao, Alicante-Elche, the Bay of Cadiz, Murcia, Vigo-Pontevedra, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Palma de Mallorca). Among them they welcome half of the Spanish population.; title: The state - both central and autonomous - denies them as political realities because it fears they can not control them. Cities, however, begin to think that in a world where the concept of sovereignty is exercised over that state, there is not need of a intermediary. In essence, politics is nothing but the distribution of costs and benefits. In the tension between the control by the State of the territory and the empowerment of contemporary societies, cities are the frontline of resistance. The ability of large cities to equip themselves to defend their independence, to manage their potential and resources, will be key to deciding who wins and who loses.; title: This is a chronicle of the Spain of the cities, which constitutes a model of alternative political organization that could redefine the reform projects of the Spanish state. A kind of urban Iberia to change Spain.