The residential revolution of barcelona working-class suburbs, 1939-1980: Nou barris as case study

Abstract

This article is part of a broader research project that aims to highlight how the housing revolution during the second part of Franco regime was not only a revolution of urban forms, of abrupt change in the forms of housing occupation and in the type of family, of radical renovation of domestic equipment, but also a revolution of home ownership. This last revolution had its true Trojan horse in the working-class neighborhoods of Barcelona and other large Spanish cities periphery, and constituted an actual exception at an European level.