Cruise Traffic & Urban Regeneration of Port Cities - The City of Dublin in the Spotlight!
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Download CTUR citynews N.4/2010 Dublin (1.53 MB) of the URBACT CTUR project CityNews. Each issue of CTUR newsletter is dedicated to one of the project partner cities. Fourth city in the spotlight, after Varna (Bulgaria), Matosinhos (Portugal) and Download Cturcitynews3_Trieste.pdf (897.07 KB) (Italy), Dublin, the largest port of Ireland situated on the Irish Sea.
The whole nature of maritime transport has changed dramatically during recent decades and this could not fail to impact on port cities. Delocalisation of port activity to deep water, greenfield sites outside the city or simple decline in traffic left many coastal towns facing huge areas of derelict land, abandoned buildings and infrastructure at the former heart of the city. Functional relationships and transport networks lost significance, port-city animation ceased to exist. Furthermore changes in status of port authorities have often fundamentally altered management systems traditionally dealing with the city-port interface, necessitating development of, or benefiting from, new partnership structures. Today these modifications and handicaps are becoming more and more regarded as opportunities exemplified by cities seeking to diversify central port activities, to actively plan for delocalisation, to exploit land availability to develop new and attractive waterfront and to reuse port heritage and infrastructure in innovative ways.
CTUR is an URBACT project made up of 10 European cities looking for joint, effective and sustainable solutions in the field of cruise traffic and urban regeneration. Indeed, CTUR project led by the City of Naples deals with the effects of cruise traffic on integrated and sustainable port city development.
This issue of the CTUR CityNews is dedicated to Dublin partner. Find out more on the Irish capital city 'a fast growing cruise tourism destination' and its port 'a gateway to the city'. Discover the recent developments in Dublin docklands and its new bridge and read the interesting interviews of the Dublin City Manager, Mr. John Tierney, and of the Chief Executive of the Dublin Port Company and member of URBACT Local Support Group in Dublin, Mr. Eamonn O'Reilly.
Read more:
- CTUR - URBACT website
- Download CTUR citynews N.4/2010 Dublin (1.53 MB) – URBACT website
- CTUR Trieste CityNews - URBACT website
- CTUR Matosinhos CityNews - URBACT website
- CTUR Varna CityNews - URBACT website
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