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Fernández-Ges, Andrés.

Fig 8. Aerial view from Zaragoza in 2001. Strategic decision.
Source: Own elaboration from the data provided by Google Earth.

The Advance included the new strategic approaches establishing two main strategic
operations in the city, operations capable to transform the current structure of
the city. Opportunities based in realizations in a short and medium term, with
implementation projects involving the territory. These two operations were the rail
area in Delicias and Portillo, including the new Intermodal Station and the railway
land in Avenue of Navarra, based on the arrival of the HSR to Zaragoza, and the
urban transformation appeared in El Portillo with the disappearance of the former
rail station. The other main strategic area was the River Ebro waterfronts. These
two areas are in the limits of the old town, so both complemented the Integral Plan
of the Historic Casco.

9. The Master Plan of 2001

The Plan was definitively approved in June 2001. Regarding to the rail soil, the plan
maintained the decisions made in the Advance of 1998, defining the parameters of
development of the area, separating the railway land in two main areas of urban
renovation, whereby urban planning should be defined by a previous Agreement
between the three Administrations. These areas were named Areas of Agreement:
AC-19 in Portillo and AC-44, including the new station, in a huge area between the
neighborhoods of Almozara and Delicias.

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