Barcelona<\/span><\/h1>SPAIN<\/span><\/h3>[\/vc_column][vc_column vertical_content_position=”middle” width=”1\/3″][vc_column_text text_style=”leader-text”]\u00ab THE REHABILITATION OF OLD DOCKS HAS MADE IT POSSIBLE TO RECLAIM ABANDONED AREAS \u00bb[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column vertical_content_position=”bottom” width=”1\/12″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/4″][vc_column_text]Marc Darder Sol\u00e9<\/strong>,
\nArchitect and Head of the Urban Service at the Regional Government of Catalonia.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row bg_type=”image” bg_image=”4573″ bg_image_type=”horizontal-parallax-lr” bg_image_size=”full” padding_top_multiplier=”6x” padding_bottom_multiplier=”6x”][vc_column]<\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”5\/12″][vc_column_text]On Barcelona’s waterfront, rehabilitation, conducted in several phases, is now setting an example throughout Europe. It partly explains that this city of 1.5 million inhabitants has grown from 300,000 tourists in 1970 to 8 million today and has become the world’s leading congress city. “Its very strong growth owes much to the rehabilitation of five kilometres of coastline in the run-up to the 1992 Olympic Games”, Barcelona turned its back on the sea, with polluted beaches used as slums, industrial wastelands and a completely isolated district. [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”5\/12″][vc_column_text]”Informal housing has been demolished, beaches and wastelands cleaned up. The urban planners have created a waterfront promenade, beaches, sports facilities, a 50% underground ring road, an underground rail system,” says Marc Darder.<\/p>\nThe architect regrets “the modification of the waterfront in four major stages, with no real overall vision.”[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/6”]
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<\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”5\/12″][vc_column_text]On Barcelona’s waterfront, rehabilitation, conducted in several phases, is now setting an example throughout Europe. It partly explains that this city of 1.5 million inhabitants has grown from 300,000 tourists in 1970 to 8 million today and has become the world’s leading congress city. “Its very strong growth owes much to the rehabilitation of five kilometres of coastline in the run-up to the 1992 Olympic Games”, Barcelona turned its back on the sea, with polluted beaches used as slums, industrial wastelands and a completely isolated district. [\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”5\/12″][vc_column_text]”Informal housing has been demolished, beaches and wastelands cleaned up. The urban planners have created a waterfront promenade, beaches, sports facilities, a 50% underground ring road, an underground rail system,” says Marc Darder.<\/p>\n <\/div><\/div>[\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1\/6″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”5\/12″]
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