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Barcelona. International events and their impact in the urban tissue and development. Great international enterprises without any primarily urban aims, such as International Exhibitions or the Olympic Games, were the impulse for important transformations, remodelling Barcelona four times in 115 years between 1888 and 2004. The local administration recurred repeatedly in moments of socio-political crisis and economical stagnation to the proven model of urban development of using a major international event as trigger force to accomplish urgent complex undertakings. By that the events appoint key moments in the urban development of Barcelona. For instance the International Exhibition of 1929 marked the urban reform and metropolitan definition of Barcelona. The planning and implementation of the Olympic Games in 1992 constituted a crucial period of securing the city’s economic future and marked a qualitative shift towards major restructuring projects. These projects were integrated in the broader Development Plans, which looked beyond the event itself and focused onto the complex reality of the host city. Local governments used these modern events as ways of promoting the town and as occasions for restructuring and replaning it with international public and private financial support. The major investments which accompanied the great enterprises, allowed the city and metropolitan area to be endowed with good communications, telecommunications, hotels, alternative tertiary centres, storm drains, stadiums and other sporting installations, a marina, airport, main roads, and also the reform of major cultural structures.