Urban Regeneration of Universal Expos’ Ex-Sites. Case Study of Seville

The capacity of exhibitions to transform a city covers a large period. Long before its celebration, the exhibition is already quite present in the city's daily life through its planning, organizational activities, and the need for mobility of citizens. The complex is transformed into a unique scenario for architecture, diversity, technology, mobility, and culture during the event itself. After the exhibition is over, work continues with the architectural transformations necessary to reconfigure the place into one that responds to the needs of the city and its inhabitants. The collateral actions of urban development through exhibitions involve the regeneration of different areas of the city, such as emblematic areas, and the reconfiguration of its operational systems such as transport, telecommunications, various networks, etc. Seville is an important case study because it housed two exhibitions that had a major influence on the development of the city: the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929 and the Universal Seville Exposition of 1992. This paper presents the situation of urban regeneration of those areas of Seville (Spain) and some original future developments related to the integration of ex-expositions’ sites into the life of a modern city.