ABSTRACT
In Copenhagen, post-industrial housing was particularly significant, as the city boasts an extraordinary amount of disused harbour areas in central, attractive locations. All over Europe the centrally located and highly visible developments were ideal showcase projects and used for city marketing in general as well as for the promotion of particular urban development policies. This chapter presents a selection of new tenements on redeveloped industrial sites in the city centre. Examples include Berlin's Viktoria Quarter in an old brewery, Spittelmarkt-South and Friedrichswerder on or adjacent to the Berlin Wall strip; Copenhagen's and Rotterdam's large-scale harbour redevelopments. Example also includes Glasgow's Speirs Wharf on a former inland port and Graham Square on a former meat market; and Vienna's Nordbahnhof neighbourhood on a disused railway station. The chapter shows to what extent design and character of the new tenements was influenced by the former industrial use, as by the desire to reshape the respective cities' identity in relation to their industrial past.
