Zorrotzaurre
The book ‘The Island that Never Was. An English castaway in Bilbao’ published
The Publisher ZAWP has just launched the book, ‘The Island that Never Was. An English castaway in Bilbao’ by Robert Alcock, biologist and neighbour of Zorrotzaurre. The book is a personal diary of 15 years on the península that is soon to become an island and which is mainly undiscovered, even by people from Bilbao. The book contains a varied cast of different characters, Bertold Brecht and Zaha Hadid, lizards and kingfishers, Gargantua the child-swallowing float from fiestas and the thousand-eyed beast, squatters and graffiti artists, speculators and artists. Imaginary future alternatives for the quarter are also examined.
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Zorrotzaurre
Ana Oregi, new member of the Zorrotzaurre Management Board
In the latest meeting of the Zorrotzaurre Management Commission Ana Oregi Bastarrika, currently the Minister for Territorial Policy and the Environment of the Basque Government was named as board member. In the same meeting, Miren Saratxaga de Isla, Director of Housing Planning and Operating Processes of the Basque Government stood down from the board.
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Zorrotzaurre
2015 saw 51% more visitors to the Zorrotzaurre web compared to the previous year
At the end of 2015, the Zorrotzaurre urban renewal project web had received 23,379 visitors, 51.3% more than in 2014. The majority of visitors were from Spain (87%), while the remaining visits were split between over 100 countries. The largest number of international visitors came from the USA, the UK, France and Germany.
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