Highlights Waterfront redevelopment becomes increasingly a widespread phenomenon in Chinese coastal port cities. The factors driving waterfront redevelopment are not consistent between western developed countries and communist China. The foreseeable issues or challenges facing the redevelopment of the eastern Dalian port areas are pointed out.

    Abstract Since the turn of the millennium, waterfront redevelopment has been a new phenomenon in the coastal port cities of China and has become an important component of a global wave. In the context of urbanisation and globalisation, waterfront redevelopment provides not only various opportunities but also unprecedented challenges for the Chinese port cities. From a sustainability perspective, addressing the challenges requires thoroughly analysing the factors driving waterfront redevelopment and discovering the issues facing those coastal port cities. After reviewing the historical process of port development, based on the case of the eastern Dalian port areas, this paper attempts to explore the key factors behind the redevelopment and to discover the main issues facing Dalian cityport. The results show that forces at the global, national and local levels jointly drive redevelopment activities and that some national factors, such as aggressive real estate development in the past decade, play a remarkable role in this phenomenon. Consequently, timing on redevelopment, historic building conservation, reconnection of the waterfront to the city, and building a democratic decision-making process together challenge the sustainable future of redeveloped waterfronts in Dalian cityport and in other historic port cities in China.


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    Title :

    Preliminary investigation of waterfront redevelopment in Chinese coastal port cities: the case of the eastern Dalian port areas


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    Publication date :

    2014-01-01


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    14 pages




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    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English







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    Waterfront redevelopment plan creates port diversification opportunity. Port of Tampa's Garrison Seaport Center A case study

    Towsley, C. A. / Royal Flemish Society of Engineers; Section on Harbour Techniques | British Library Conference Proceedings | 1996