Table of Contents
Introduction
Heleni Porfyriou, Marichela Sepe, Port cities and waterfront developments. From the re-actualisation of history to a new city image
Part I: Port Cities in History
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.
Part II: The Transformations of Historic Ports in Eastern Mediterranean Cities
3. Vilma Hastaoglou-Martinides, The historic harbours of Eastern Mediterranean Cities; the challenges of enhancement
4. Hicran Topçu, The transformation process of the Galata port in Istanbul’s history. Reflections on the impacts of the ‘Galataport project’
5. Cristina Pallini, Alexandria’s waterfronts. Form, identity and architecture of a port-city
Part III: Waterfronts Revisited. Regeneration, Redevelopments and the Historic Urban Landscape
SECTION I Local stories and the impact of a global model
6. Steve Ward, Internationalising port regeneration: models and emulators
7. John Pendlebury, The Historic Urban Landscape of the Liverpool waterfront: the Three Graces in a new perspective
8. Francesco Gastaldi, Genova a success story!
9. Rosario Pavia, The difficulties faced by waterfront rehabilitation projects in Italy
10. Michelangelo Savino, Messina’s waterfront regeneration: what a chance to reinvent the city!
11. Marcela Pizzi Kirschbaum, Valparaiso, port, railway and industry; a cultural landscape which generated modernity in need of preservation
12. Chen Yu, Regenerating urban waterfronts in China: the rebirth of the Shanghai Bund
13. Jinnai Hidenobu, The landscape of Tokyo as a city on the water - past and present
SECTION II New redevelopment strategies
14. Dirk Schubert, The transformation of North-western European urban waterfronts - divergence and convergence of redevelopment strategies
15. Oriana Giovinazzi, The internationalization of the Marseilles waterfront. An integrated approach
16. Carola Hein, Felicitas Hillmann, The Missing Link: Redevelopment of the Urban Waterfront as a Function of Cruise Ship Tourism
Index