Waterfronts Revisited European ports in a historic and global perspective [Hardcover]

Waterfronts Revisitedaddresses 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.

Introduction

Heleni Porfyriou, Marichela Sepe, Port cities and waterfront developments. From the re-actualisation of historyto a new city image

1. Donatella Calabi, Early modern port cities: harbouring ships and residential settlement

2. Dimitris Kontogeorgis, Romanian Danubian and Black Sea ports during the 19th century. Between tradition and modernization.

3. Vilma Hastaoglou-Martinides, The historic harbours of EaslÓ)