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    This document is a book about urban planning in port cities, comparing London, Barcelona, New York, and Rotterdam over the past two centuries. It discusses how these cities' relationships with their ports and public spaces have changed, from the 19th century focus on infrastructure to the modern cultural emphasis. The book examines each city's history, challenges of integrating ports into urban areas, and recent efforts to redefine public domains and reconnect separated city and port regions through new planning approaches.

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    This document is a book about urban planning in port cities, comparing London, Barcelona, New York, and Rotterdam over the past two centuries. It discusses how these cities' relationships with their ports and public spaces have changed, from the 19th century focus on infrastructure to the modern cultural emphasis. The book examines each city's history, challenges of integrating ports into urban areas, and recent efforts to redefine public domains and reconnect separated city and port regions through new planning approaches.

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    The book discusses the changing relationship between large-scale infrastructure like ports and public urban spaces in four major port cities: London, Barcelona, New York, and Rotterdam over the 19th and 20th centuries.

    The main topic of discussion in the book is the changing relationship between cities and their ports from the 19th century to the 21st century, focusing on issues of public space, infrastructure, culture and urban planning.

    The author describes that historically, cities and their ports had close relationships but there was also tension between their functional needs. Ports played an important economic role but could also divide and marginalize parts of cities.

    Han Meyer

    CITY AND PORT


    Urban Planning as a Cultural Venture in
    London, Barcelona, New York, and Rotterdam:
    changing relations between public urban space
    and large-scale infrastructure
    Contents

    Foreword 9

    CHAPTER I
    THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY PORT CITY ON ITS WAY TO
    THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY II

    1 The Identity of the Port City: The Emergence of'the Cultural


    Factor' 13
    — The Difficult Relation Between Functional Planning and the
    Design of the Urban Form 14
    — Spatial Design and Cultural Significance: The Hard and the Soft
    City 18
    — Culture: What's in a Name? 20
    2 The Modernity of the Port City: Shaping the Tension of Public
    Space 20
    — The Port City From Intermediary to Field of Tension Between
    International and Local Networks 25
    — Public Space as Space for the City's Public Realm 28
    — Contradictory Meanings: Cultivation and Marginalization of the
    Modern Port City 30
    — Various Types of Public Space: Socialized and Technocratized
    Public Space 35
    3 On to the Twenty-First Century: Disappearance or Renewal of
    Public Space? 41
    — Metropolization and Urban Transformation 41
    — An Increase in Scale and 'Technologization' 42
    — A Decrease in Scale: The Rearrangement of Cultural, Social, and
    Economic Life 44
    — 'Culturalization' of the City 44
    — New Social Domains 46
    — New Blends of Economic Networks 46
    4 Redefining the Public Domain 48
    — Changing Relations Between Cities and Their Ports: Two
    Centuries, Four Cities 52
    CHAPTER 2
    THE ENGLISH PORT CITY: LONDON AND THE WONDER
    OF DOCKLANDS 63

    Between Individual Dwelling and Regional Plan 65


    The Docks as a Microcosm of the British Empire 68
    — London and the Docks: 'Two Nations' 72
    — The Docks as Central Focus 77
    The Docks as Divisive Element in Regional Planning 80
    — Completion of the Greater London Plan 88
    — Representation of Docklands' Identity 89
    — New Prospects for the Thames and Docklands 92
    The New Course 93
    — Political Transformations 93
    — Spatial Transformations: Four Stages of Urban Plan Development 98
    — First Stage: A Balanced Urban Planning Concept Fails 99
    — Second Stage: An Urban Plan Restricted to the Scale of an Enclave 100
    — Third Stage: The Development of a New Centrality — Canary Wharf 105
    — Fourth Stage: A Posteriori Urban Planning — Toward a New
    Relationship 109
    Balance: From West End to East End no

    CHAPTER 3
    THE MEDITERRANEAN PORT CITY: BARCELONA AND THE
    OTHER MODERN TRADITION 113

    The Premodern Port City: The Orientation of the City Toward the Sea 115
    — Venice, Genoa, and Lisbon 115
    — Barcelona as Mediterranean Port City:-Between Autonomy and
    Domination 121
    — The Revitalization of Barcelona as an Autonomous Mediterranean
    Port City: the Ramblas and the Harbor Front 121
    — The Colonization of Barcelona: Confining and Excluding 128
    Modernity in the Mediterranean Region. Barcelona as a European City
    on the Water 131
    — European, Mediterranean, and Catalan Identity 131
    — Urban Harbor Front Versus Autonomous Port 133
    — Urban Expansion, Further Marginalization of the Waterfront 135
    The Uncompleted Project of Modernism — Spatial Form or Building
    Form? 139
    Barcelona's 'Urbanismo'. Recapturing Public Space 147
    — Urbanismo and Regional Identity 148
    — Toward New Functional and Spatial Coherence 152
    — The Renewed Waterfront as Test Case 153
    Balance: The Ongoing Spatial Organization of the City 176
    CHAPTER 4
    THE NORTH AMERICAN PORT CITY: NEW YORK,
    A BOUNDLESS URBAN LANDSCAPE l8l

    The 'Pure' Modernity of the American City: Between Cultural and


    Economic Principles 183
    The Modernity of the Port City: The Port Area, From Neutral to
    Marginal Zone 189
    — Reconciliation of City and Countryside 194
    — Introversion of the City 202
    Modernism on the Waterfront: The City Merges With the
    Landscape 205
    — Highways and the Regionalization of the City 205
    — The New Deal and the Creation of Modern Man 207
    — The City as an Architectonic Megaproject 229
    After Modernism: Cities Are Fun - Revaluation of the Complexity
    of the Nineteenth-Century City 234
    — The Waterfront as a New Public Area: Looking for a Symbiosis of
    Nineteenth-Century Patterns and Twentieth-Century Use 23 5
    — The Waterfront as Exclusive Enclave: Reconstruction of the
    Nineteenth-Century City 252
    — The Waterfront as Strategic Pawn: The Search for New Spatial and
    Strategic Concepts 260
    — In Search of New Spatial and Functional Coherence in the City 271
    Balance: Fragmentation or Coherence 273

    CHAPTER 5
    THE NORTHWESTERN EUROPEAN PORT CITY: ROTTERDAM AND
    THE DYNAMIC OF THE DELTA 28l

    City, Port, and Dikes 283


    — Amsterdam: The Indefinite Waterfront 288
    — Rotterdam: 'Leaps in Scale' Mark Relation Between City and Port 289
    — Public Space in Dutch Port Cities 294
    The Modern Transit Port: The Search for a New Symbiosis of Port
    and City 296
    — The Rotterdam Dilemma: West or South? 298
    — Designing the Structure of the City 299
    — A New Type of Port City: Orienting the City Toward the New
    Transit Port 301
    — Economy and Culture — Combining Necessity and Pleasure 304
    Modernism in the Port City: A Dualistic Relationship Between City
    and Port 309
    — The Search for a New Relation Between City and River 316
    NIEDERS. ^ — Structuralizing the City Without Design: The Formal Neutrality
    of the Basisplan 318
    — Two Dualisms in the Relation Between City and River 323
    — The Myth of the Port as Part of the Cityscape 326
    4 After Modernism: The Search for New Fundamentals of Design 328
    — Urban Renewal: High Point of Social-Democratic Consensus 329
    — The Professional Debate: Searching for New Concepts of Spatial
    Coherence 340
    — The Ideal of the Complete City: The Kop van Zuid as the Epitome of
    a New Consensus 352
    — New Connections Between City and Port 371
    — Amsterdam: Continuous Alienation Between the City and the IJ 372
    5 Balance: Restless Relations Between City and River 376

    CHAPTER 6
    URBANIZING INFRASTRUCTURE: AN URBAN DESIGN PROJECT 379

    — Confrontations and Relations Among Various Levels of Scale 381


    — Four Different Approaches to the Design of Infrastructure 383
    — Steering the Program: An Obsolete Task 388
    — The Current Project: Developing Professional Skill in Urban Planning 388

    Notes 391
    Acknowledgements 407
    Bibliography 408
    List of Illustrations 420
    Index 422

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