The gleaming Guggenheim Museum Bilbao has put the Basque capital on
the map of world cities and has exacerbated optimism among public
officials worldwide about the role of spectacular architecture in
urban renewal. This book -- a theoretically-informed case study and
a major synthesis of Bilbaos developments through the lens of
globalization analyzes the Guggenheim project as the latest of
Bilbaos globalization efforts, puts the project in the context of
Bilbaos decades-long transformation and contends that Bilbaos
positive economic performance since 1994 is not fundamentally due
to the success of Frank Gehrys building, but rather to a complex
array of causal processes that must be understood in the context of
Bilbaos connections with the world economy and a changing
world-system. The author argues that globalization processes in
Bilbao are as old as the city itself and that the role of the State
must be taken into account in order to explain the citys changing
fortunes throughout the years. Globalization itself ought to be
understood as a complex and variable network-like process with
multiscalar nodes, an approach which is carefully theorized and
empirically developed in this book.
A Volume in the Current Research in Urban and Regional Studies
Series.
*Takes into consideration Bilbao's social history and the complex
relationships between local and global entities (regionalism v.
state)
*Provides a socioeconomic analysis of the "Bilbao Effect"
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