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THE CONTEMPORARY ASPECTS OF REVITALIZATION OF THE BUILDINGS AND THE PORT AREAS

T. Szymanski

Abstract

Port cities are the forefront of globalization. The continued growth of international trade of goods and services has now played a major role in shaping the economic and social world. Strategies for mutual cooperation and follow-up between countries, cities and regions are increasingly complex. On the one hand it brings profits, on the other leads to destabilization and the need for transformation and constant modernization. Port cities have begun the process of organizing both local and international networks, counting on a more effective impact on global strategies for their own economic and social development. The most important aspect of this goal is to ensure the coherence of cities and ports projects. ItВ’s fundamental to define new rules for city and port coexistence and can only be achieved through a mutual dialogue based on the transparency of actions and plans for their sustainable development. It concerns developing new building standards, organization, control and risk prevention in the contact zones. The developmental capacities that port users expect met with cautious approaches by cities, responsible for long-term planning. In order to protect the areas not yet developed. The temporary forms of use are introducing until a specific spatial policy is defined and implemented. Consequently, in strategic locations their will prefer to locate reversible projects that will allow for change and alternative use. Years of the ports transformation in many parts of the world, in the city-port interrelationships, lead to the conclusion that only multifunctionality of use will facilitate this process. Revitalization of architectural objects forming part of the broadly understood industrial heritage is an increasingly dynamic area of both design and construction projects. Port cities demand exceptionally decisive action. This change is the result of a radical transformation of understanding of the philosophy of human functioning in the environment. Degree of environmental devastation, the technical and social transformations have led to the definition of new rules for the use of natural resources in a sustainable manner, ensuring their renewability.

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