Abstract
Seeking an optimum sustainable development strategy is a core objective of municipalities and innovative urban planners around the world. Various viewpoints and interests regarding the interface between ports and cities and the resulting extensive waterfront regeneration in principal seaports render spatial planning projects of this type complex to complete and obtain agreement on. For a modern city, port development is a principal source of influences and benefits related to ecology, society, and transportation. Currently, the world’s largest seaports are moving cargo terminals out of historical city centres. As a result, ports are assuming more advanced functions unrelated to the maritime industry, and thus projects that equitably share port territories will naturally gain momentum. The most significant projects for moving cargo ports out of historical town centres and regenerating port areas are found in European cities. To understand the various approaches, examples from European regeneration projects for port territories in Bilbao, Barcelona, and Oslo are presented, and their experience with various geographical and town-planning conditions is highlighted. This study is devoted to the Ukrainian port city of Odesa. It identifies the most successful strategy for developing the port-city interface under current economic and geopolitical conditions. It combines the ideas and studies of city planners in management, economics, and transport geography along with various policies and sociology aspects to provide new information and understanding aimed at ensuring the sustainable development of coastal cities in developing countries.
Highlights
Seaside cities develop into laboratories for waterfront regeneration processes
Thirteen seaports are operating in Ukraine
This study analyses current concepts and projects related to regenerating port areas in major EU cities, emphasising the key prerequisites for carrying them out
Summary
The regeneration of ports reflects a uniform strategy for the competitive development of twenty-first-century port cities. The troublesome property relations in seaports, and intra-port and inter-port competition between various actors leads to confusion and the loss of freight traffic In this time of globalization, the transformation of ports and their waterfronts is closely connected with global economic restructuring, technological changes in production, organizational process changes in the industry of coastal areas, and competition between cities in the global hierarchy (Schubert, 2011). This study analyses current concepts and projects related to regenerating port areas in major EU cities, emphasising the key prerequisites for carrying them out It develops a spatial planning model for Ukraine’s major port cities, such as Odesa, Mykolaiv, and Kherson, focusing on the influence of public institutions on processes at the port-city interface
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