The production of the space of accumulation and cultural representation in Madrid (2000-2010)

Abstract

Culture was considered in last decades along several points of view, and considering it as an instrument of social identification, it was spread along the urban centers of the cities in which was growing a new kind of urban regeneration and the production of new spaces for social rise. In Madrid, public investments have allowed the re-use of buildings and urban structures that have changed the uses, images and social representation that they were associated. This paper looks for the origin of this situation in those times of real state expansion, in that moment that capital was flowing in the markets to contribute to the symbolic capital transformation. From de analysis of geographical expansion of cultural spaces and their associated investments in Madrid, the paper has wanted to find the relationship between the capital production-accumulation and the space production.