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Transport function vs. post-industrial identities: The urban restructuration of the Rhine river ports (1990-2010)

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In the last two decades most of the German ports, but also Strasbourg (F) and Basel (CH), are on the way or have already developed impressive urban waterfronts projects. They usually followed models adopted by numerous sea ports from the 70ies on. Thus, urban authorities consider the port areas as underused and sometime merely as wasteland. Their claims for urbanizing river banks are part of a global strategy were the Rhine metropolis have to compensate the decline of manufacturing industries and to shape an urban image that fits to service economy in order to attract people and high skilled activities. New urban settlements along the Rhine show great architectural ambitions that are also part of a globalized city marketing (i.e Duisburg, Düsseldorf or Cologne). On the other hand, global economy needs unprecedented transport capacities by river. The continuous shit of container traffics to the hinterland is supposed to double till 2020. But this demand could be threatened by shrinking land availability for port installations. In these controversial positions presented by a large literature review, the first objective of our paper is to establish a survey of land consumption for port or urbanization purposes. The first objective is to see in what extend port areas have really shrinked (in absolute and in relative value) during the last 15 years). The second objective is to set up a typology presenting the several development paths followed by the several cities along the Rhine. The research will be set on the detailed analysis of variables that could explain the differences (proximity to the inner city, to the sea ports, the size of the port, but also historical specialization and political decision making).

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hal-00854487 , version 1 (27-08-2013)

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Antoine Beyer. Transport function vs. post-industrial identities: The urban restructuration of the Rhine river ports (1990-2010). 4th Transnational Rhine Conference, Mar 2013, France. 26p. ⟨hal-00854487⟩
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