Repositori URV

Identifier: TDX:1894

Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/TDX1894

Authors:
González Márquez, Miguel

Abstract:
This thesis is a work of translocal ethnography which relate two towns and their territorial context: Tarragona-Camp de Tarragona and El Puerto de Santa María-Bay of Cádiz. It primarily serves the space and funtional transformation of the city to understand who, how and forr whom the city is transformed. We consulted both thechnical and political sectors and the role of civil society. Although concepts related to geography or political science are used, the base is ethnographic and anthropological, as we rely on participant observation and interviews to get common conclusions on the most common social dynamics about the transformation of the city as a product and human producer. This work, which analyzes the period of the last fifty years, pays special attention to the crack of the construction business. That is a materials and discursive conditioning. It does so with a detailed analysis of their waterfronts and port districts, which are a very important element to face the future of the cities thaht own them.