Crisis, Conflict and Celebration: Ethnographic Studies of European Cities

Abstract

The 2000s will be remembered with the neoliberal urbanism that has rapidly transformed the metropolises throughout the world. Large-scale urban regeneration and renewal activities together with mega projects transformed cities not only spatially but also economically and socially. New accommodation, work, and entertainment spaces and forms were introduced (Todd, 1995). The consequences of this transformation include but are not limited to undermining spatial justice, increasing social inequalities, causing ecological destruction, and displacing many people. These deep wounds inflicted by neoliberal urbanism through dispossession and enclosure are becoming increasingly ordinary in metropolitan areas (Harvey, 2012; Merrifield, 2013). © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2024