ABSTRACT
During the years 1968-1975 individual neighborhood associations across Spain started to establish mechanisms of cooperation and of information-sharing while expressing similar goals in relation to specific projects of urban renovation within their respective barrios. The chapter first briefly explores the political and economic turning points of the Spanish transition. Next, it analyzes the evolution of neighborhood associations during the transition by concentrating on the case of Orcasitas and examining three central issues: the call for consumers' protection and control programs, the implementation of new educational and cultural policies, and the execution of urban renovation plans. By focusing on the solutions offered by the associations to these issues, it highlights the deepening understanding of their members regarding the potential of self-management as an extended form of governance. Finally, the chapter examines the progressive exclusion and the limitation of the role of neighborhood associations following the publication of the democratic constitution and the local elections of 1979.
