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Thought City, Lived City, Represented City

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  • Authors: SÁNCHEZ IZQUIERDO, Pablo
  • Place, Editorial, Year: València, Ministry of Territory Policies, Public Works and Mobility , 2021.
  • Publication types: Llibre
  • Abstract:

    This study offers a search of artistic expressions that help see how writers musicians, painters, scultors, architects and artists perceived the city of Alicante in a similar way, comforming its image and contributing with art to the identity tthat unified urban refurbishment and territory ordenance with the inhabitants feelings. It is a journey from the city's inside to its outside throughout its streets and avenues in the urban centre and districts. It is also a walk through the sea view, from the Mediterranean to the natural scenery of Alicante. A return to the province's capital, not to study its characteristic image of late 19th century and early 20th century, but to see how it was destroyed and rebuilt during the Civil War and how relations appeared between urban space, inhabitants and artists who went from pride to fear, to political committment and humanity.

    • Chapters

    1. Introduction. Towards the definition of a theme
    2. About the transformation of Alicante between the 19th and 20th centuries
      • Population growth. Health, development and proliferation of new urban services
      • Recognition and gratitude. Politics and the city
      • The demands of the forgotten. The workers' movement in the provincial capital.
      • Longing for culture. The promotion of school groups
      • The press and the development of Alicante
      • The bourgeoisie, participants in the changes in the city
    3. The shaping of Alicante's cultural landscape through the arts. Impressions and expressions of the perceived environment
      • In search of the modern city: the expansion and interior reform of Alicante
      • The Benalúa neighbourhood, an exemplary residential area
      • Housing, leisure and tourism on the shores of the Mediterranean
      • The city on the fringes of the city
      • The impact of tourism and the transformation of San Juan beach
      • ‘So ours, so of our land’. Artistic appreciations of Alicante's surroundings
      • The city under siege. The transformation of Alicante during the Civil War in the eyes of the artists
    4. Conclusions

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    ISBN: 978-84-482-6649-3