
Quién quedará viviendo aquí

Spaniards are good at living close together – with around 90% of the population now squashed into less than 30% of the country’s territory, they’ve little choice. What’s more, 65% live in flats – almost half of all pisos measure between 60 and 90 metres squared.
Brendan Boyle • Spain's fix for a lonely planet
What was happening to the city – the replacement of its historical inhabitants with younger, wealthier newcomers, and the resulting price hikes and decline in diversity – was gentrification, a term used almost exclusively by the people who caused it.