Scholars on Bilbao

Home
Articles that restrict their focus to Bilbao

SIEMIATYCKI, M (2005)

Beyond Moving People: Excavating the Motivations for Investing in Urban Public Transit Infrastructure in Bilbao Spain.

EUROPEAN PLANNING STUDIES 13 (1): 23-44

ABSTRACT: This paper explores the context and contradictions that have brought Bilbao Spain, a IF city of some I million inhabitants, to its stature as a leader and model of contemporary public transit. The decision to invest in public transit infrastructure is situated within an urban context that includes historical, economic, urban design, social, environmental and political motivations. Front this contextual rooting, public transit projects are examined for their potential to achieve both a tangible set of objectives and an intangible symbolic meaning that presents transit projects as being about more than just moving people.

<backWeblink to pdf next>

Powered by Global Arts Networking Foundation [ www.net-ganf.net ]
Complete list of articles
Articles in SCCI journals
Articles in other journals
Thesis and chapters of books
Other works
Search for Articles
Links