Avilés facing a new future

Abstract

This text makes reference to the challenge of changing that the town of Aviles faces nowadays. The traditional condition of a basic industial city brought out many negative consequences, not only the economical crisis and the industrial rationalization, but also all those related to Aviles’ sparse qualification for the following renovation. The new Plan that should set up the principles and create the urban conditions for changing cannot be just a remedy against the inherited situation: an estrategic City Project is required so that the oportunities can be identified. The town must recover its leading role, specially related to new diversified services, encouraging its double centralizing condition (regional and metropolitan) and restoring the highly valuable space of the river mouth and the estuary, to the which Aviles always grew turning its back on.