Best practicesCreated on: 2 April 2026

Bellingham (USA, WA): An educational heritage trail

Goal 6.1

Developing all types of promenades and other open spaces in City Port interface zones, to promote a better understanding of port and logistic activities.

Challenge(s)

How can the port activity and heritage be showcased?

Best Practice

The relationship between the port and the city has changed over time, due to spatial rearrangements. Promenades can be used to revitalise the waterfront and reconnect the city with its port. Including promenade routes in port-city projects is both a way of restoring newly reassigned spaces and introducing new visual perspectives of the city and port. Moreover, this new connection with the city can foster the local economy, creating new relations in the port-city interface. Additionally, this integration can showcase the port’s heritage structures to the city. The port of Bellingham decided to highlight its heritage by developing a specific trail connecting some of its historic main points.

This good practice also includes objective 8.2 (Revising the status of port and Port City heritage to properly reflect the historical significance of sites) of the AIVP’s 2030 Agenda.

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