Commitment 06Read more
Port Culture and Identity
Local port identity as a key asset for building a lasting relationship
Integrating spaces and functions open to residents and visitors alike into port facilities, enhancing the visibility of the port and its activities.
How can the right balance be struck between the spatial needs of the port and city?
Occupied and empty spaces, visual perspectives, building heights, and volumetric shapes are all factors that can be altered to optimise the way port-city interface sites are integrated into the existing urban and port context. With careful planning, preserving and creating visual perspectives of the water, dock basins, and reclaimed port patrimony is possible. In Le Port, a master plan is redesigning the original port-oriented city to better connect the residents and port activities.
This good practice also includes objective 6.2 (Integrating spaces and functions open to residents and visitors alike into port facilities, enhancing the visibility of the port and its activities) of the AIVP’s 2030 Agenda.
When it was founded in 1895, Le Port was originally a sole-purpose city, a tool organised specifically to further the economic development of the port and designed exclusively for the shipping of goods. During the 1960s, a dividing line gradually separated the city from the port and the sea. The railway closed down, and buildings were erected around the dock basins, forming a physical and symbolic boundary with the city.
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