ABSTRACT
This chapter provides answers for the following questions: how the urban spaces become creative and how their creativity changes across the phase of deindustrialization? and how is the multitude of the industrial harbour giving way to an intended or planned creative space? Conceptualising this as a process of de- and reterritorialisation, the harbour is approached as an assemblage with components ranging from global discourses over national urban systems to working culture and local material structures. The chapter explains how two Danish harbours were transformed from industrial to postindustrial assemblages. The waterfront will provide views to sailing boats, bathing water and a new everyday experience for the Aarhus population. During the 1980s and 1990s, large enterprises arrived, such as Sea Land, McLeans company and UniFeeder, which were to become the largest feeder companies in Scandinavia. Attempts to reconstruct a 'sailortown feeling' often end up as like urban theme parks of marine trivia.
