HafenCity, Hamburg: redeveloping brownfield lands within Hamburg’s port district” presentation by Prof. Dr. Bernhard Funk, Professor of Real Estate Development and Project Management, Hochschule RheinMain Wiesbaden, Germany.

Time and Place

Time: 12:00PM
Location: Architecture and Urban Planning Building 110

Presentation Summary

On February 29, 2000, Hamburg’s Senate made history by giving its approval to the Masterplan for the new inner-city district of HafenCity. It was on this date at the latest that, after almost ten years of preparation, a decisive, metaphorical “foundation stone” for its realization was laid. The chance to transform the edges of the port around the city center was partially perceived back in the 1990s. Hamburg’s role in Europe improved dramatically with the fall of the Wall and the Iron Curtain: from being a city on the easternmost edge of the Western World, it has become the metropolitan heart of a continent growing together again, and a place with enormous potential. This opened up the way for Hamburg to become a crucial hub in Central Europe. Connections with Northern Europe were also being upgraded and the whole Baltic Sea area grew enormously in significance. This process gave Hamburg huge potential for development – but it had to be exploited quickly, to prevent other competing regions from overtaking.

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