ABSTRACT
The Dublin docklands are in many ways a typical example of contemporary waterfront development. Derelict warehouses, docks, quays, and former coal-yards left from a time before containerization put an end to manual forms of labour and forced city ports towards the seafront have shaped Dublin’s docklands area since the 1970s. In the 1980s, these derelict waterfront areas were earmarked by urban planners, investors, and developers as having the potential for the development of new city quarters. As in cities all over the world, such as Melbourne and Sydney, Hamburg and Bremen, London and Liverpool, Copenhagen and Antwerp, Boston and Baltimore, Singapore and Shanghai, the ‘revitalization’ of dockland areas in Dublin has incorporated many different approaches to reorganizing port industries and redesigning old city quarters as places for tourism, residential or business use, or centres for leisure activities (see Moore 2008; Schubert 2008, 2001).
