Captions

1

Steel making and shipbuilding doing well, but then decline.

2

Heavy industries and city houses pollute the River Nervion.

3

Unemployment, crime and poverty grow.

4

City Council and others realize ‘something must be done’.

5

Cleaning up the river takes priority.

6

Redesigning the riverside

comes next.

7

Building an eye-catching focus in the city centre helped.

8

Getting people and their cars off the road and onto the Metro reduced congestion.

9

Linking the Metro with tram and bus routes.

10

Building a new airport to cope with tourist and business trade.

11

Expanding the port at a new site downstream.