Nuevos espacios terciarios de Barcelona: adaptaciones a una economía globalizada

Abstract

This paper analyses the restructuring of the Barcelona urban space to the tertiarization process. The importance of this process is assessed through some indicators, such as demographic and occupational ones, household incomes and housing prices. The ideology and the urban politics that have been developed during the last twenty years have also been analysed, stressing the strategies of production of the new urban spaces called Àrees de Nova Centralitat. Lastly, the socio-spatial effects of the tertiary process are assessed through the analysis of the offices market and the location of new office buildings.