Barracks Seamanship Instruction (CIM) has welcomed the Cartagena conference, landscape, tourism and urban renewal, which will end on Saturday November 7.
The mayor of Cartagena, Jose Lopez, who has opened the conference this morning, and stressed the need for urban renewal.
The event was also attended by President of the Union of Associations of Architects Planners of Spain, Josep Maria Vilanova i Claret, and the dean of the College of Architects of the Region, Antonio Garcia.
The mayor mentioned the great work done by the UPCT in the city due to its key role in the recovery of local heritage through the conversion of historic buildings such as the Marine Hospital and barracks Antiguones and Seamanship Instruction in study centers university.
On the other hand, the dean of the College of Architects of the region has indicated that it will do tomorrow Beltrí Victor delivery UPCT Award because it has been the main incentive for the recovery of Military Heritage.
Cartagena has become a university city and home to the university within itself.
Lopez stressed the determination of the municipal government to build a city, a municipality that meets the needs of the XXI century proud to serve the resident and the visitor attraction, while recalled that off-axis Port-Square Spain also live Cartagena who have felt abandoned by his city, the same as bleeds for each of the more than 100 lots, as an open wound in its urban fabric, attacked by projects like the university district, and others who in the last 15 years they have tried to destroy, unfortunately successful in many cases.
In addition, the mayor has said to the media that are being programmed for two separate awards for recovery studies of the neighborhoods of San Anton and St. Lucia are submitted and that, through these competitions, the architects give us insights how to get these projects going.
The mayor has asked the participants in this conference to be skeptical and courageous, the idyllic versions are created and help us recover our city and the neighborhoods that surround it, but also, if they wish, set our landscape the Mediterranean, our forests and batteries and defensive fortifications. Similarly, Lopez has given them a dossier of more than 100 existing undeveloped plots, suppose to trust you, urban professionals, a huge and exciting challenge, to recover a city with 3,000 years of history.
These days about Cartagena and its urbanism, organized by the Official College of Architects of the region, include conducting lectures, panel discussions, visits to various architectural sites, as well as the celebration, on Saturday, the Annual Assembly of the Union Groupings of Architects Planners (UAAU).
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena