Waterfront redevelopment and territorial integration in Le Havre (France) and Southampton (UK): Implications for Busan, Korea

Waterfront redevelopment and territorial integration in Le Havre (France) and Southampton (UK): Implications for Busan, Korea

[SHS:GEO] Humanities and Social Sciences/Geography

Busan

Le Havre

Southampton

territorial integration

waterfront redevelopment

This paper proposes common directions of waterfront redevelopment in Korea through a qualitative approach by interpreting the relation between waterfront area and the overall structure of the port city in Europe. It argues that the more a redevelopment project is integrated to the structure of the city, the more it becomes successful in terms of attractiveness for both citizens and businesses. The findings provide many implications for Busan waterfront redevelopment. The direction of waterfront redevelopment is believed to be induced from the internal and external forces that are coincidentally in juncture. Drastic changes in the regional environment have exerted impacts on specific port cities, resulting in specific trajectories in different regions of the world. In order to respond to those changes, new policies are implemented while city and port enhance their mutual cohesion and increase their overall competitiveness. Busan waterfront redevelopment should not copy other cases of waterfront redevelopment. Its waterfront redevelopment shall not neglect dynamics of port competition and its connection with the city's needs and structure.

Lee, S.W.

Ducruet, César

Ocean Policy Research

2006

ENG

article in non peer-reviewed journal

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-00459369

http://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/docs/00/45/93/69/PDF/OceanPolicy_Lee-Ducruet2006.pdf