Urban+Renewal

**1. The social and cultural components of urban renewal**.

**The interventions affects not only the physical pattern of a City, but also the social background. It is relative to what is already** **in the urban space, both in explicit and implicit ways.**

**2. The economic mechanisms in urban renewal.

The balance between financial logic and the appropiate measures is important for the renovation to be efficient, keeping the interests of the city and its inhabitants.**

**3. Urban renewal and land.

The management of the territorry is a Key point in sustainabe urban renewal, considering both the instruments and requirements for developing policies.**

=My opinion:= =I think, the item titled "Urban Renewal and Land" is the most important of the themes held in the congress because we as Urban Planners want to improve life quality, and it depends basically in how the land is managed. The design or project should make the most of the land where it will be placed, leaving enough free space to achieve balance between natural and artificial landscapes, as well to allow the structures already built to follow the evolution of the city, I mean, the Renewal is Key for recycling structures to avoid wasting landscape in the wrong way=

media type="file" key="opinionbcn2001" The infrastructure placed for the Olympic games in 1992 affected in a positive way to the city, because most of the structures are still in use, the road conection made possible the whole system to bring to the urban space not only a new aspect but better urban services improving the quality of life and attraction of the city for investments and tourism.
 * Regarding the important conclusions arrived at the Barcelona congress, and after watching the videos below, how have the Olympics' infrastructure (the Olympic Village) affected the city of Barcelona?

With the constructions of the Olympic village and the Port Barcelona was opened to the sea in Poblenou. This was a decayed neighbourhood.
 * What was the purpose of the Olympic Village?

New sport centers, new road contections, and new uses in some old structures were some of the benefits that came with the olympics.
 * What benefits did the different Olympic structures bring to the city/citizens?


 * Name at least 3 new projects (space transformation) and mention what old structures they replaced, if mentioned, and what specific benefit(s) brought to the city and/or citizens.
 * 1) The Royal Palace became into a Medieval Art Museum.
 * 2) Velodrom d´Horta which is used now for Soccer.
 * 3) Estadi Olímpic de Montjuïc which is still active.

Barcelona is a good example of how a city can use a large scale international event like the olympics for urban renewal
 * What is the final conclusion of these videos?

=Essay about **//__how Barcelona profited from the 1992 Olympic games__//** .=

Olympic Games played a key role in setting off some renewal plans in barcelona. all the infrastructure that came with the games started a transformation, the city eventually changed its image from a typical industrial city to a flexible one.

All the city was affected in a positive way, because most of the structures are still in use. The road conection made possible the whole system to bring not only a new aspect but better urban services improving the quality of life and attraction of the city for investments and tourism. clearly the planification behind these kind of events (such as Olympics) left valuable benefits.

One of the Highlights in the Olympic constructions were opening up the sea front to the city, restoring the historical buildings in Gothic Quarters and on Montjuic Mountain and building the ring roads around the metropolitan area. Even some famous Architects were even invited to design new projects. Most of the projects were not directly used for the Games.

As I mentined before, the management behind the events is important, So in the case of Barcelona with the Olympics, they planned the projects strategically so the maximum number of useful investment can be left behind after the Games.