Answer for exercise 5
The solution for exercise 5 in chapter 1 - Urban renewal of Outcomes Advanced - Student's Book by Carol Nuttall and Amanda French
Question
With your group, decide which city each sentence refers to: Bilbao, Bogota or Manchester. Look back at the texts if you need to.
Answer
- Bilbao: Other cities trying to replicate the so-called “Guggenheim effect” may have failed because they didn’t take up the other strands of Bilbao’s regeneration project.
- Bogotá: Peñalosa’s administration then expropriated the land of a private country club in the north side of the city. Its golf course and polo fields were converted into a free park with sports facilities for all.
- Manchester: Making more of the city’s historical sites and creating the Urbis building, which now houses The National Museum of Football. In turn, these changes have been key in attracting new investors such as the Qatari royal family, who own Manchester City Football Club.
- Bogotá: They also imposed restrictions on car use and increased taxes on petrol, the proceeds from which went back into the new transport system.
- Bilbao: Up until the early 80s, Bilbao had been dominated by steel plants and shipbuilding. To halt the decline, the city embarked on a strategy to reinvent itself as a centre for culture, tourism and new technologies. It also modernised what remained of its more traditional industries and attracted new companies to the technology park on the outskirts of the city.
- Bogotá: The ex-mayor of Bogotá, Enrique Peñalosa, has argued that if we ever achieve a successful city for children, we will have built the perfect city for all citizens.
- Bilbao: Nevertheless, it’s difficult to deny it’s been a success which has seen the city return to its previous population levels and survive the major recession that began in 2008.
- Manchester: So, dreadful though the bombing was, it actually provided an opportunity to start again that might not have happened otherwise.