Remaking Madrid: Culture, Politics, and Identity After FrancoRemaking Madrid is the first full length study of Madrid's transformation from the dreary home of the Franco dictatorship into a modern and vibrant city. It argues that this remarkable transformation in the 1980s helped secure Spain's fragile transition to democracy and that the transformation itself was primarily a product of "regionalism" even though the capital is typically associated with "Spanishness" and with "the nation." The official project