Industriekultur und Raumbewusstsein in Asturien/Spanien

Abstract

The article deals with the development of a spatial consciousness in the old heavy industrial region Asturias in Northern Spain. On the basis of social and cultural historical studies, qualitative research, literary sources and media representations/interpretations Holm-Detlev Köhler traces mental processes of change from industrialisation to the present structural change. Economic, political and administrative, socio-cultural and topographical conditions are confronted with concepts of self-perception and external apperceptions of the region.