Appreciating Site-Specific Qualities in Urban Harbours: Urban Culture and the ombrière in Marseille

Abstract

When “site-specificity” becomes a central value in city and harbor transformation, it soon proves necessary to address the ways in which scholars and professionals actually determine site-specific qualities in urban fabrics and social life. This paper delves into the above questions by means of observa-tions from Marseille in southern France. After modernization and dislocation of its harbor territories in the early 20th century already, this city is currently taking important steps from industrial urbanism into cultural planning. This transformation allows for new and unprogrammed experiences of site-specificity, even in the traditional harbor settings. Considered with conceptual care, such situations may teach us what it means to “appreciate site-specific qualities”.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelSite-specific design : Driving force for harbour transformation
RedaktørerLisa Diedrich, Andrea Kahn, Caroline Dahl
Antal sider7
ForlagSveriges Lantbruksuniversitet (SLU)
Publikationsdato2015
Sider58-64
AnsøgerSveriges Landbrugsuniversitet (SLU), Alnarp
ISBN (Trykt)978-91-576-8917-7
StatusUdgivet - 2015
NavnLTV publication series
Vol/bind2015:27

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