week 3 yonglin wang

When we talk about France would be associated with the luxury fashion, full-bodied red wine and imaginative paintings.Roubaix located in northern France.Roubaix city in modern times was an important textile industry city of France, once very prosperous city economy, at the end of the 19th century is one of the most economically developed cities in France.However, in the two world wars in the first half of the 20th century, become the main battlefield of northern France, Roubaix, as one of the northern city of serious cases of war had destroyed.After entering the 1970 s, with the economic crisis swept across France, traditional industry, especially the traditional textile industry in transition, heavily damaged Roubaix city, industrial city, etc.For out of the shadow of economic crisis in the late 1980 s to the early 1990 s have taken the urban construction.Roubaix city urban renewal, urban Renaissance is the main strategy in a number of updates within the scope of the old city renovation project, to change the image of the city, to attract business enterprises.Roubaix city, old city reconstruction process, is actually a mesh mainly includes: urban waterfront green space, such as Roubaix The overall process of formulation and implementation of urban design, by controlling the old river landscape engineering;Urban traffic distribution and large city rebuilding and expansion of the creation of a series of urban public space (such as marina square, such as Roubaix big square project; urban commercial purchase water green space, culture, entertainment, leisure shopping center, physical space, such as McArthurGlen mall, a large square, etc.), improve the overall environmental quality of the city and enhance GrandeRue commercial complex;The center of the city cultural entertainment empty city.

Why Roubaix reconstruction of the city, can let a city into a tourism industry, cultural city?

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