Social Movements and Local Urban Policies in Times of Crisis: The Torrelodones Case

Authors

  • Luis A. Collado Cueto
  • Santiago Fernández Muñoz

Keywords:

Social movements, urban policies, Torrelodones (Madrid)

Abstract

The article explores in depth the origin of a social movement of local environmental nature
that emerged in 2005, at the height of the housing boom, against an urban requalification that
sought to develop the then usual binomial “golf course and estate of detached houses” in a part of
the municipality of high environmental value. An analysis of the causes, characteristics and
consequences of the housing bubble on the basis of the case of Torrelodones is provided. It analyzes
the evolution of this citizens’ associative movement and its institutionalization through the creation
of a political party that ran for the first time in the 2007 local elections becoming city government,
and got the absolute majority four years later. Finally, it delves into the changes in governance, in
urban policies and into “Vecinos por Torrelodones” government management priorities of the crisis
in order to determine to what extent a change in local governance has occurred and what has been
its scope.

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Published

2016-06-29

How to Cite

Collado Cueto, L. A., & Fernández Muñoz, S. (2016). Social Movements and Local Urban Policies in Times of Crisis: The Torrelodones Case. Ciudad Y Territorio Estudios Territoriales, 48(188), 261–279. Retrieved from https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/CyTET/article/view/76479

Issue

Vol. XLVIII, núm. 188 Monográfico (2016). Crisis, gobiernos locales y políticas urbanas

Section

Articles

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Copyright (c) 2016 Luis A. Collado Cueto, Santiago Fernández Muñoz

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