Patrimoine et compétitivité urbainele cas des villes espagnoles
- Guy Di Méo (coord.)
ISSN: 1276-4930
Year of publication: 2005
Issue: 19
Pages: 121-130
Type: Article
More publications in: Sud-ouest européen: revue géographique des Pyrénées et du Sud-Ouest
Abstract
URBAN HERITAGE AND COMPETITIVENESS: THE CASE OF THE SPANISH CITIES. Cities have been making a real effort since the end of the Twentieth Century to develop new competitive strategies with which to reach an outstanding position in the set of the world-wide urban system. In order to obtain those aims, deep and aggressive techniques of "surgery" and cosmetic treatments have been used to prolong the activity of a great number of urban spaces and buildings, using also several and different techniques of promotion and sale of the city. Such cities are taking an attractive and amiable appearance nowadays to initiate a new cycle of operation on the ruins of the recovered memory.