ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to show the involvement of women fighting against the renovation works that drive gentrification, while defending their rights in the places they live. It provides context for the case study and describes the urban intervention projects in Barcelona's city centre. The conflict between public and private is shown openly when urban intervention proposes reforms that will radically transform the urban landscape, organising it for tourist use and transforming daily life and relations between the inhabitants. The local inhabitants occupying the empty space to turn it into a park represented a powerful symbol of social protest against neoliberal urbanism. The chapter shows the close relationship between transforming the landscape for the tourist economy, urban protest movements and the role of women in underprivileged neighbourhoods. It discusses two cases of the revolutionary role of women in the Casc Antic and Barceloneta districts.
