Cruise Traffic & urban regeneration of Port cities : the city of Varna in the Spotlight!
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09 October 2017You are interested in cruise traffic and urban regeneration of Port cities: read the first edition of the URBACT CTUR project 
Download CTUR citynews N.1/2010 Varna (1.46 MB). Each issue of CTUR newsletter will be dedicated to one of the project partner cities. Varna, the Bulgarian seaside resort on the Black Sea Coast and tourist capital of the country is the first CTUR partner to be discovered.
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.
<img width="116" data-cke-saved-src="uploads/RTEmagicC_citynews.jpg.jpg" src="uploads/RTEmagicC_citynews.jpg.jpg" height="32" style="FLOAT: left" alt=" />This issue of the CTUR CityNews is dedicated to Varna partner. Find out more on this Bulgarian port city "Gateway to 3500 years of history". Discover "Varna's projects for the old port: The new cruise terminal area" and read the interesting interview of Mr. Svilen Kraichev, former deputy mayor of Varna, currently member of the National Parliament and leader of the CTUR Local Support Group in Varna as well as CTUR Lead Expert Vittorio Torbianelli's article on "The Varna Case study: a local community involved in the European Maritime policy".
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