Euro Commentary: Towards the Sustainability of Historical Centres: a                 Case-Study of León, Spain

Álvarez, Óscar Fernández

doi:10.1177/0969776407075558

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“…The decline of historic districts and downtown areas has led to conservation planning and heritage preservation movements and to the designation of certain historic districts as UNESCO World Heritage sites in both Portugal and Spain [44]. A certain emphasis on renovating single buildings, monuments, and public spaces has eluded the need to renovate the urban fabric in centrally located residential neighborhoods.…”

Section: Cities On the Iberian Peninsulamentioning

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Urban Revitalization in Small Cities across the Atlantic Ocean

Balsas

2024

Sustainability

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City centers and riverfronts across the Atlantic Ocean have undergone substantial transformation over the last two decades. This paper analyzes walk-only precincts and waterfront revitalization in two pairwise cases (PCs) of small city exemplars on two continents in locations at about the same latitude but separated by the Atlantic Ocean. The argument is twofold. First, to be fully effective, city center revitalization interventions need to be coordinated with appropriate institutional programs to create collaborative management opportunities among multiple civic and business agents. Second, multiple cultural offerings, environmental amenities, and pro-active leadership positionalities have contributed positively to the evolution of waterfront community economic redevelopment opportunities in riverfront locations. The methods involved multiple site visits to cities of various sizes on the Iberian Peninsula and the Northeast of the United States at different times during the last twenty years, extensive literature reviews and syntheses, data analyses, assessment of policy priorities, and interviews with employees in various economic sectors, business owners, residents, elected officials, planning professionals, and community leaders. Two of the main conclusions are that, to be fully effective, the public space interventions on the Iberian Peninsula had to be coordinated with appropriate regulatory and institutional programs to generate collaborations with multiple civic and business agents and that the Northeastern cities have attempted to revitalize their riverfronts by conserving water-based and urban historic assets and amenities from further erosion due to downpours and floods as well as socio-economic and cultural transformations.

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Section: Cities On the Iberian Peninsulamentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban Revitalization in Small Cities across the Atlantic Ocean

Balsas

2024

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“…Studies have revealed that there is a link between HBMM and sustainability. In particular, [58] highlighted the challenges and solutions for retaining historic centres to enhance sustainability. Instrumental in reducing the impact of climate change on the environment, proper management of HB can be achieved through various means, such as retrofitting strategies for achieving energy efficiency [5,47,109], building refurbishment, and sustainable designs [87], refurbishment as a means of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions [67], retrofitting [115], and adaptive reuse [77].…”

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Heritage building maintenance management (HBMM): A bibliometric-qualitative analysis of literature

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Journal of Building Engineering

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“…Considering that the age structure of Casco Antiguo is considerably more regressive than other inner-city areas and outer districts, it comes as little surprise that the city authorities have been trying to attract new residents to this district, and to adapt its present housing stock to the needs and wants of potential in-migrants (Ayuntamiento de León, 2000, pp. 18-20;Fernández, 2007).…”

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“…In response to such challenges, this paper examines the extent to which socio-demographic signs of reurbanization are present in León, a town of 136,000 inhabitants in the northern Spanish province of Castile and León (see Figure 1). Having faced population loss from the urban core, León's inner city has recently shown signs of recovery linked to new processes of in-migration and residential change (Fernández, 2007). Cities of this size have rarely been studied within the Spanish (and, more generally, developed-world) context, although much has been written about the "comeback" of larger Spanish metropolitan centres in terms of their rising attractiveness for a variety of population groups, ongoing cultural and residential Subsequently published as: Bouzarovski S, Haase A, Hall R, Kabisch S, Steinfuehrer A, Ogden PE, Hall R (2010) Household structure, migration trends and residential preferences in inner-city León, Spain: Unpacking the demographies of reurbanization.…”

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Household Structure, Migration Trends, and Residential Preferences in Inner-city León, Spain: Unpacking the Demographies of Reurbanization

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This paper looks at the changing demographic features of the Spanish city of León, with the aim of exploring the manner in which its urban fabric has underwent processes of reurbanization: a dynamic whereby the inner city is becoming more attractive for a wide variety of household types and social groups. The paper draws on socio-demographic analyses of municipal census data, as well as a customized questionnaire survey of local residents. Empirical evidence is provided both for the city as a whole and two inner-city districts: Casco Antiguo and El Ejido. Among other findings, the paper argues that, although the contiguous built-up area of the city is clearly losing its inhabitants through processes of out-migration and ageing, there are a series of small-scale migration flows that are increasing the concentration of "non-traditional" households in the city centre and the areas around it. This is accompanied by an increasing trend towards "city-mindedness" as a residential choice and housing preference among both in-migrants and the long-standing residential population. In its entirety, the surveyed evidence points to the emergence of a spatially fragile and fragmented reurbanisation process.

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Euro Commentary: Towards the Sustainability of Historical Centres: a Case-Study of León, Spain

Cited by 8 publications

References 9 publications

Urban Revitalization in Small Cities across the Atlantic Ocean

Urban Revitalization in Small Cities across the Atlantic Ocean

Heritage building maintenance management (HBMM): A bibliometric-qualitative analysis of literature

Household Structure, Migration Trends, and Residential Preferences in Inner-city León, Spain: Unpacking the Demographies of Reurbanization

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