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Port cities located within various metropolitan or functional regions face very different development scenarios. This applies not only to entire municipalities but also to particular areas that play important roles in urban development—including ports as well as their specialized parts. This refers also to the various types of maritime industries, including the processing of goods, logistics operations, shipbuilding, or ship repairing, to name just a few. Since each of these activities is associated with a different location, any transformation process that creates changes in geographic borders or flows will dynamically affect the port cityscape. Municipalities may evolve in different directions, becoming ‘major maritime hubs,’ ‘secondary service centers,’ ‘specialized waterfront cities,’ or just distressed urban areas. Within each metropolitan area, one can find several cities evolving in one of the above-mentioned directions, which results in the creation of a specific regional mosaic of various types of port cities. These create specific ‘port regions’ with specific roles assigned to each of these and shape the new (regional) dimension of the geography of borders and flows. As a result, these port regions are created as porous structures where space is discontinuous. To further develop the issue of the creation and evolution of port regions, the authors present the case study of the Gdańsk Bay port region. This study in particular allowed for the development of both the theoretical background of this phenomenon and the presentation of a real-life example.
Karolina A. Krośnicka; Piotr Lorens; Eliza Michałowska. Port Cities within Port Regions: Shaping Complex Urban Environments in Gdańsk Bay, Poland. Urban Planning 2021, 6, 27 -42.
AMA StyleKarolina A. Krośnicka, Piotr Lorens, Eliza Michałowska. Port Cities within Port Regions: Shaping Complex Urban Environments in Gdańsk Bay, Poland. Urban Planning. 2021; 6 (3):27-42.
Chicago/Turabian StyleKarolina A. Krośnicka; Piotr Lorens; Eliza Michałowska. 2021. "Port Cities within Port Regions: Shaping Complex Urban Environments in Gdańsk Bay, Poland." Urban Planning 6, no. 3: 27-42.
The Gdańsk Shipyard—the birthplace of the Solidarity movement—is host to a unique example of a multi-layered brownfield redevelopment project, an area that is burdened by a complex history, overlapping heritage, and multiple memories. These circumstances require an integrated yet differentiated approach to the site’s heritage and make the creation of one homogeneous narration of its future impossible. At the same time, the size of the area, as well as its location within Gdańsk city centre, has meant that its future has been the subject of numerous discussions and speculations conducted over the last 20 years—starting from the creation of a large-scale open-air museum and continuing to the localization of the new Central Business District of the city. Consequently, that broad discussion carried out regarding the scope of redevelopment projects has been rooted in the possible introduction of diverse models of adaptive reuse. This variety of possible approaches also includes discussion on the mode of integrating heritage in the redevelopment processes. The goal of this paper—written just before the initiation of the final stage of the conceptual part of the project—is to present the complexity of approaches to issues related to redevelopment and heritage preservation.
Piotr Lorens; Łukasz Bugalski. Reshaping the Gdańsk Shipyard—The Birthplace of the Solidarity Movement. The Complexity of Adaptive Reuse in the Heritage Context. Sustainability 2021, 13, 7183 .
AMA StylePiotr Lorens, Łukasz Bugalski. Reshaping the Gdańsk Shipyard—The Birthplace of the Solidarity Movement. The Complexity of Adaptive Reuse in the Heritage Context. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (13):7183.
Chicago/Turabian StylePiotr Lorens; Łukasz Bugalski. 2021. "Reshaping the Gdańsk Shipyard—The Birthplace of the Solidarity Movement. The Complexity of Adaptive Reuse in the Heritage Context." Sustainability 13, no. 13: 7183.
Only a few cities can claim that they have changed Europe and indeed the World. Gdańsk is privileged to be one of them. It is not a “caprice of history” that the Solidarity movement which, in the end, got the iron curtain torn, was born in this particular place. It is a logical consequence of ten centuries of the collective wisdom of the people that built Gdańsk and the region of Pomerania. The tragic assassination of the Mayor of Gdańsk, Paweł Adamowicz, in 2019, reminds us that these values that city represents – solidarity and freedom – should be recaptured from those who want to push our cities towards other principles. Gdańsk is once again becoming a symbol of the choice we all have to face. Is the city ready to set sail towards a new destination in its stormy history?
Piotr Lorens; Izabela Mironowicz. Gdańsk: a City of Solidarity and Freedom. disP - The Planning Review 2020, 56, 8 -21.
AMA StylePiotr Lorens, Izabela Mironowicz. Gdańsk: a City of Solidarity and Freedom. disP - The Planning Review. 2020; 56 (1):8-21.
Chicago/Turabian StylePiotr Lorens; Izabela Mironowicz. 2020. "Gdańsk: a City of Solidarity and Freedom." disP - The Planning Review 56, no. 1: 8-21.
Piotr Lorens; Politechnika Gdańska Wydział Architektury Katedra Urbanistyki i Planowania Regionalnego. SHAPING THE NEW FACE OF THE IMPERIAL SHIPYARD IN GDAŃSK. Space&FORM 2019, 2019, 151 -170.
AMA StylePiotr Lorens, Politechnika Gdańska Wydział Architektury Katedra Urbanistyki i Planowania Regionalnego. SHAPING THE NEW FACE OF THE IMPERIAL SHIPYARD IN GDAŃSK. Space&FORM. 2019; 2019 (40):151-170.
Chicago/Turabian StylePiotr Lorens; Politechnika Gdańska Wydział Architektury Katedra Urbanistyki i Planowania Regionalnego. 2019. "SHAPING THE NEW FACE OF THE IMPERIAL SHIPYARD IN GDAŃSK." Space&FORM 2019, no. 40: 151-170.
Sea space has been undergoing a profound transformation. Although it retains its inspirational function in arts, literature and philosophy, it has been gaining new anthropogenic dimensions in economics and urban planning as a source of satisfying human needs i.e. the provision of harmony, beauty, off-shore energy, and biotech substances. Therefore, in this paper marine space is analyzed from a multidimensional perspective of urban planning, economics, and literature. Maritime space has been a subject of literature from its inception. Without attempting to give an overview of the vast topic, the paper discusses the pronounced presence of sea space in the earliest Western literary sources, such as the Bible and Anglo-Saxon poetry. As a striking case study, Herman Melville’s 1851 novel Moby-Dick is analyzed with its complex, dynamic notion of maritime space. Aditionally, the importance of the shore as locus amoenus in a short story by the contemporary writer Maxim D. Shrayer is examined. This notion of locus amoenus is also present in the research related to urban planning. Maritime space attracts people to locate nearby. Development is created as a response to these demands. Both urban planning and economics underline, however, a need of sustainable development of this space. This is crucial in order to secure its positive influence on human well-being in the long run. The three disciplines also point out that maritime space remains in the process of continuous creation and re-development in course of adding new functional and axiological ties between humans and the seas and oceans. Thus, nowadays maritime space covers both sea and terrestrial gateways servicing the sea and the key constituting factor is provided by human beings (homo maritimus) through their economic, social or emotional bond to the sea.
Katarzyna Jerzak; Maxim D. Autor Shrayer; Karolina A. Krośnicka; Piotr Lorens; Jacek Zaucha; Joanna Pardus. The essence of marine and coastal space – an interdisciplinary perspective. Europa XXI 2019, 36, 15 -34.
AMA StyleKatarzyna Jerzak, Maxim D. Autor Shrayer, Karolina A. Krośnicka, Piotr Lorens, Jacek Zaucha, Joanna Pardus. The essence of marine and coastal space – an interdisciplinary perspective. Europa XXI. 2019; 36 ():15-34.
Chicago/Turabian StyleKatarzyna Jerzak; Maxim D. Autor Shrayer; Karolina A. Krośnicka; Piotr Lorens; Jacek Zaucha; Joanna Pardus. 2019. "The essence of marine and coastal space – an interdisciplinary perspective." Europa XXI 36, no. : 15-34.