2006 Volume 71 Issue 604 Pages 85-91
This paper reviews the intervention strategy for urban regeneration within the framework of "Area for Integrated Rehabilitation" (A.R.I.), implemented in the historic center of Barcelona from the later years of 1980s, through the precise analysis of the official document of A.R.I.: the first four-year Program for the interventions. The A.R.I. system was created originally in 1983 by the Central Government of Spain, and the city council of Barcelona has developed the original way of management in order to program the urban strategy for improvement of public spaces and infrastructure, and foster the rehabilitation activities of private housings which had been of very poor quality. This study reveals that the interventions during the first four years concentrated its effort on coordinating the land ownership and acquiring the appreciable quantities of land for creating the public spaces at the district level.
