GOMEZ, M VICTORIA (1998)

Reflective images: The case of urban regeneration in Glasgow and Bilbao

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF URBAN AND REGIONAL RESEARCH 22 (1): 106-121

ABSTRACT: Old industrial cities have made broad use of new strategies as the means to overcome the difficulties created by the restructuring of their former economic basis. [abr.] Even if it has been of widespread currency, the effectiveness of this formula is not clear, as its impact on the city of Glasgow illustrates. Yet, at present, Bilbao, a Basque variant of one of those old industrial cities, is making use of the same ideas to legitimate its own current renewal, through focusing upon the misleading message that comes from Glasgow's apparent success in urban regeneration. [abr]