Throughout the investigation and in the articles produced as a result thereof, either published or in the process of being published in different indexed scientific journals, we have dealt with the phenomenon of the decline and regeneration of Bilbao and its metropolitan area, a phenomenon that has required extensive urban transformation and the development of a management model that have been recognized in many areas and aspects as an exemplary process of revitalization with a significant level of success.
The thesis makes a critical reflection on the different criteria adopted in the revitalization of metropolitan Bilbao.
This reflection tackles issues such as the real value of the Strategic Plan, the purpose of the management of Bilbao RIA 2000 and different circumstances deriving from the arrival in the city of the Guggenheim Museum. From here, different conclusions arise which affect the dilemma between globalization and identity and, above all, a twofold territorial problem: the concept of the city in the territory and the concepts of dimension, recovery and territorial landscape.
In a context in which political and, to a certain extent, urban success become the aureole of the entire process, the thesis unravels motivations, weaknesses and even perversions of certain concepts and general attitudes that magnify the paradigmatic nature of the different factors related to the local administration and, in general, the public sector.
The different objectives raised initially lead to conclusions from which the objectives of a neo-liberal policy can be clearly drawn, objectives which show that issues such as public information, respect for considerations of geographical and scenic nature, acknowledgement of the metropolitan urban reality, the balance between the different parts that make up the city, and so on, should or may be overlooked, an omission which occurs to the extent that they become an obstacle for the achievement of political and economic goals by the local administration and the sectors linked to the regeneration and the construction of the city.
Throughout the investigation and in the articles produced as a result thereof, either published or in the process of being published in different indexed scientific journals, we have dealt with the phenomenon of the decline and regeneration of Bilbao and its metropolitan area, a phenomenon that has required extensive urban transformation and the development of a management model that have been recognized in many areas and aspects as an exemplary process of revitalization with a significant level of success.
The thesis makes a critical reflection on the different criteria adopted in the revitalization of metropolitan Bilbao.
This reflection tackles issues such as the real value of the Strategic Plan, the purpose of the management of Bilbao RIA 2000 and different circumstances deriving from the arrival in the city of the Guggenheim Museum. From here, different conclusions arise which affect the dilemma between globalization and identity and, above all, a twofold territorial problem: the concept of the city in the territory and the concepts of dimension, recovery and territorial landscape.
In a context in which political and, to a certain extent, urban success become the aureole of the entire process, the thesis unravels motivations, weaknesses and even perversions of certain concepts and general attitudes that magnify the paradigmatic nature of the different factors related to the local administration and, in general, the public sector.
The different objectives raised initially lead to conclusions from which the objectives of a neo-liberal policy can be clearly drawn, objectives which show that issues such as public information, respect for considerations of geographical and scenic nature, acknowledgement of the metropolitan urban reality, the balance between the different parts that make up the city, and so on, should or may be overlooked, an omission which occurs to the extent that they become an obstacle for the achievement of political and economic goals by the local administration and the sectors linked to the regeneration and the construction of the city.