Waterfronts as catalysts for city renewal

Abstract

At the turn of the Millennium, the renewal of urban waterfronts can be seen as a keynote of economic development in post-industrial cities around the world, and the model for that phenomenon which is mentioned most often may be the Baltimore Inner Harbor Redevelopment in an old industrial port city in the northeastern “rust-belt” megalopolis of the US. A city which has lost almost 30 percent of its 1945 population and suffered from all of the urban lifestyle crises of the twentieth century, Baltimore has nevertheless rekindled its spirit and created a distinctive international image for itself through a systematic, entrepreneurial and beautiful makeover of its old Inner Harbor – where the still-important Port of Baltimore had its beginnings in the early 1700s.

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