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City-Port Interface
The City-Port Interface: A Resource for Diverse Development Projects
Developing public spaces and recreational or cultural amenities in City Port interface zones to create an appealing new area.
How can one attract residents, visitors, and businesses to Port-City interface zones?
The relationship between port and city has changed over time, given space arrangements. 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 means 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 on the port-city interface. The port of Malaga used this approach to remodel old quays and reintegrate the areas with the city.
In 1998, the port of Malaga initiated a special plan to remodel some of its quays and improve its connection with the city. It proposed the creation of an urban port at the boundary between the city centre and the industrial port with a focus on providing recreational, cultural, and entertainment activities. Culture has become the focal point of the strategy designed to restore the links between the city’s historic centre and the old port installations. The cultural facilities at Quay n°1, the “Palmeral de las Sorpresas” at Quay n° 2, and the future Auditorium at the San Andrés platform go hand in hand with efforts to renovate heritage sites and build new infrastructures in the city (Picasso Museum, City Museum, Modern Arts Centre, etc.).
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