ABSTRACT
Waterfronts Revisited addresses the historical evolution of the relationship between port and city and re-examines waterfront development by looking at the urban territory and historical city in their complexity and entirety.
By identifying guiding values, urban patterns and typologies, and local needs and experiences, cities can break the isolation of the harbor by reconnecting it to the urban structure; its functions, spaces and forms. Using the UNESCO recommendation for the "Historic Urban Landscape" as the guiding concept and a tool for managing urban preservation and change, this collection of essays illustrates solutions to issues of globalisation, commercialization of space and commoditisation of culture in waterfront development. Through sixteen selected case studies, Editors Heleni Porfyriou and Marichela Sepe offer planners and urban designers a broad spectrum of alternative solutions to waterfront regeneration interventions and redevelopments, addressing sustainability, regional cultural diversity, and the debate between conservation and transformation.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter |16 pages
Introduction
part |23 pages
Port Cities in History
chapter |15 pages
Romanian Danubian and Black Sea Ports during the Nineteenth Century
part |49 pages
The Transformations of Historic Ports in Eastern Mediterranean Cities
chapter |19 pages
The Historic Harbours of Eastern Mediterranean Cities
chapter |10 pages
The Transformation Process of the Galata Port in Istanbul
part |147 pages
Waterfronts Revisited: Regeneration, Redevelopments and the Historic Urban Landscape
part |95 pages
Local Stories and the Impact of a Global Model
chapter |15 pages
The Historic Urban Landscape of the Liverpool Waterfront
chapter |10 pages
Valparaiso, Port, Railway and Industry
part |49 pages
New Redevelopment Strategies