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A Tremor in the System

Chronicles of architecture but also records of the past half-century in Spain and the world at large, the articles wish to leave a testimony of years that were in turn hope-filled, brilliant, and convulsed. This first volume from 'Chronicles of the Crisis' starts with the real-estate crisis that would be the prologue to the financial quake of 2008 and the Great Recession that followed it, an interval marked by austerity policies and popular indignation against elites, while the economy digitalized and China flaunted its emerging power through its hosting of the Olympic Games and a World Expo; the second book, for its part, addresses the growing concerns about the climate and the environment, the geopolitical mutations that began to manifest themselves in 2014 in Crimea, and the rise of populism in 2016 with Brexit and the election of Trump, while the formidable advances made in technology and science struck a contrast with problems like military and humanitarian crises, massive migration flows, or the pandemic that paralyzed the world in 2020.

Language: Spanish and English
Hard cover
400 pages