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

Henrik Reeh

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

Department of Arts and Cultural Studies

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”.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Site-specific design : Driving force for harbour transformation
Editors	Lisa Diedrich, Andrea Kahn, Caroline Dahl
Number of pages	7
Publisher	Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet (SLU)
Publication date	2015
Pages	58-64
Commissioning body	Sveriges Landbrugsuniversitet (SLU), Alnarp
ISBN (Print)	978-91-576-8917-7
Publication status	Published - 2015

Series	LTV publication series
Volume	2015:27

Cite this

Appreciating Site-Specific Qualities in Urban Harbours: Urban Culture and the ombrière in Marseille. / Reeh, Henrik.
Site-specific design: Driving force for harbour transformation. ed. / Lisa Diedrich; Andrea Kahn; Caroline Dahl. Sveriges Lantbruksuniversitet (SLU), 2015. p. 58-64 (LTV publication series, Vol. 2015:27).

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