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Housing use
Country City Project Name
percentage
Australia Perth Perth City Link 37,60%
EEUU New York Hudson Yards 4,76%

Italia Milán Porta Nuova 28,00%
UK Londres Kings Cross 35,60%

Madrid Distrito Castellana Norte 58,26%
Valencia Valencia Parque Central 80,00%

Zaragoza Zaragoza Alta Velocidad 64,29%
Gijón Gijón al Norte 90,00%

España Barcelona Barcelona Sagrera 73,00%
Logroño Logroño Integración del Ferrocarril 100,00%

Valladolid Valladolid Alta Velocidad 78,64%
Alicante Alicante Alta Velocidad Nodo del Transporte 78,00%

Murcia Murcia Alta Velocidad 71,30%

Table 4: housing use percentage of Urban Regeneration Projects

Source: Own elaboration

But where the most important efforts must be done is undoubtedly to enhance the value and
reinforce the key strengths that these soils have beyond the hundreds of square meters gross.

In all cases they are the best location plots that allow them to compete in unbeatable conditions
with the rest of available floors. We have ground in the heart of historic city center with
optimal local connection with the host towny, and they are next to the High Speed Train
Station with privileged accessibility to the big business centers of the country and the world.

This binomial gives these plots a valuable potential for a future scenario of more efficient and
sustainable technological business models towards which, like it or not, we are tending toward,
in this increasingly global and competitive world.
Some of these answers can help us to advance at the crossroad where these projects are now in
Spain, but one of the main conclusions is that the unstoppable evolution of cities simply does
not allow the possibility of not doing anything.
If we want our cities to compete with the world’s leaders ones, we can´t condemn these
Projects and future opportunities to the non‐execution, only because of the complex change
of scenery that has occurred.

No one doubts today the success of the large urban Regeneration Operations of La Defense in
Paris or Canary Wharf in London, the result of the reconversion of industrial and port soils.
Both changed the use of soils in order to regenerate degraded areas to convert them in urban
icons and symbols of modernity of both cities.

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