EXPOZIȚIILE MONDIALE- SOLUȚII DE REGENERARE A ZONELOR PORTUARE?
WORLD EXHIBITIONS, SOLUTIONS FOR REGENERATING PORTUARY AREAS?

Summary/Abstract: Portuary areas represent a huge development potential for the city, but often, until an intervention is made, they are simply derelict. As part of long-term urban strategies concerning these areas, the use of World Exhibitions as a catalyst for the development of urban attractiveness may be considered. Even if the pavilions used at world exhibitions may bring a short term dynamic to these areas, actually, after the event, few of them remain standing. Their re-use or reconversion often proves to be a difficult task while their abandonment can create new causes for the degradation process of the entire area. Therefore the issue of integrating these areas into the city remains standing. Possible answers to the question in the title, examples of how the above mentioned problems were solved in a number of former World Exhibitions and their degree of success will be analyzed in terms of functional integration and influences at the scale of the entire city throughout this paper. Another component of the study will focus on pavilions as architectural objects and on the added value they bring at urban level.

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