ABSTRACT
Waterfront redevelopment is now a widely replicated urban process that has transformed old port cities in Europe, North America, Asia and Australia, with such celebrated examples as the London Docklands, Hamburg's HafenCity, Baltimore Harbor, River City 21 in Tokyo, and Sydney's Darling Harbour. If the Beatles had looked south from the Reeperbahn music clubs on their visits to Hamburg in the 1960s they would have seen a busy working port much like the Merseyside waterfront in their home town of Liverpool. The inevitable intertwining of place and identity for landscape facts always implicates societal values means that the interpretation of the new inner city provides insights on prevalent values in contemporary urban life. Waterfront redevelopment is wholly a product of our own era, and the past has been reconfigured to fit the present. Currently, in Southeast False Creek (SEFC), the global environmental crisis drives the design process.
