Abstract
The space at the interface of a port and a city structures accumulates influences resulting from the functions and activities both of the port and city. These functions very often collide with each other and creates dysfunctional zones within port cities. However there are solutions, which create added value for both spatial organisms. This study attempts to investigate the contemporary nature, types and organization of the port-city contact zone and the possibilities of their effective shaping and planning. The work considers the contact zones in the context of various variables (natural, topographic, historical, functional, transport, economic, ownership and management, formal and legal), and refers to spatial evolution of both structures. The study review some study cases and comment on existing literature regarding such issues as: - types of functions and services provided by ports and cities (Krośnicka 2013, Merk 2013), - differences in land use forms and physiognomy of port and city structure (Mansfeld 2016, Schubert 2015), - models of port’s and city’s development and evolution (Notteboom and Rodrigue 2005, Bird 1971, Ducruet 2011, Krośnicka 2019 and others) - models of contact zones from an urban point of view (Norcliffe et al 1996, Hayuth 1982, Hoyle and Pinder 1992, and others) - models of ports ’physical, administrative and mental limits within the city structure (Daamen and Vries 2013, Sanchez 2015). The study tries to describe types and categories of zones, methods of their delimitation, and models resulting from delimitation. The multi-criteria study of the contact zone enabled the analysis of selected port cities in terms of their port and urban space, taking into account the development factors of the port city and the port itself. By defining character and creating a typology of interactions (both dynamic and static ones), and by identifying types of borders between a port and a city, building the transformation strategies and general principles for shaping these areas become possible.
