Discovering Site-Specific Qualities in Venice and Marseille
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Discovering Site-Specific Qualities in Venice and Marseille. / Reeh, Henrik.
Site-Specific Design: Driving Force for Harbour Transformation. ed. / Lisa Diedrich; Andrea Kahn; Caroline Dahl. 2015.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Discovering Site-Specific Qualities in Venice and Marseille
AU - Reeh, Henrik
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - When “site-specificity” becomes a central value in city and harbor transfor-mation, it soon proves necessary to address the ways in which scholars and professionals actually come to determine site-specific qualities in urban fab-rics and social life. How are certain traits and habits discovered, and how may they be justified as indispensable elements in a refashioning of harbor areas to the benefit of urban culture?The present study provides answers the above questions by means of observations from two South-European cities in which site-specificity and harbor areas are closely related. For centuries, both of these cities – Venice and Marseille – have forged long-term and intimate symbolic relationships between surrounding waters and diverse harbor functions. Today, encoun-ters with such urban spaces and practices invite the visiting researchers to single out particular and maybe unexpected aspects in urban fabric and con-temporary life. Thanks to site-specific features, self-reflexive approaches to harbor transformation may develop.
AB - When “site-specificity” becomes a central value in city and harbor transfor-mation, it soon proves necessary to address the ways in which scholars and professionals actually come to determine site-specific qualities in urban fab-rics and social life. How are certain traits and habits discovered, and how may they be justified as indispensable elements in a refashioning of harbor areas to the benefit of urban culture?The present study provides answers the above questions by means of observations from two South-European cities in which site-specificity and harbor areas are closely related. For centuries, both of these cities – Venice and Marseille – have forged long-term and intimate symbolic relationships between surrounding waters and diverse harbor functions. Today, encoun-ters with such urban spaces and practices invite the visiting researchers to single out particular and maybe unexpected aspects in urban fabric and con-temporary life. Thanks to site-specific features, self-reflexive approaches to harbor transformation may develop.
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - bykultur
KW - stedsspecificitet
KW - havneudvikling
KW - Marseille
KW - Venedig
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 978-91-576-8917-7
BT - Site-Specific Design
A2 - Diedrich, Lisa
A2 - Kahn, Andrea
A2 - Dahl, Caroline
ER -
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