Innovations In Bilbao

Innovations

The city of Bilbao has been selected, among 113 cities worldwide, as one of the best urban practices.

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao symbolizes transformation, but the dramatic changein the city is due to a comprehensive set of urban, economic and social factors.

Urban renewal in Bilbao is unique in the world, to recover the huge area in the center of the city.The mostprestigious international architects have been involved in the regeneration process (Gehry, Foster, Pelli, Legorreta, Isozaki, Calatrava, Hadid, Soriano, etc.)..

The transformation of Bilbao is an exampleof social and political consensus and partnership between private companies and public administrations.

A presence justified and backed by multiple awards and recognitions internacionals.Bilbao,Madrid and Barcelona are the only Spanish cities represented in Shanghai 2010. An international example of regeneration.

The three revolutions at Bilbao:

The industrial revolution

Gallartamines and the foundation of Altos Hornos de Vizcaya were essential to consolidate the steel industry in the town.

Bilbao has an important industrial tradition, it is no secret. Simply stir in thelibrary to check how the town has changed in the last thirty years. All of the huge cranes, trains, boats and more workers and deeper into the Nervión boats have been replaced in the last season by hugeparks, modern equipment and tourists strolling through the area. Heavy industry has been totally replaced.

-The urbanistic revolution

Bilbao has adapted to changing times and has remade his life.Today it is considered a city with endless opportunities.

Bilbao, in just fifteen years has become deteriorated areas in new centers of opportunities that everyone has taken advantage of. Also ithave solved old quarrels with its greatest source of wealth, the river, to return to face her and it had started to take care of its image in a international criteria.

-The knowledge revolution...