What it used to be The Hamburg port first mentioned in the 9th century and officially established on May 7 1189 during the course of its existence continually expanded from a berthing place in the old town on the northern banks of the Elbe river toward the southwest Since the 1970s container vessels have been the dominant sight while importance of the northern part of the Speicherstadt warehouse district kept di minishing and large areas were no longer used What it is now In 2001 the ground was broken for the new HafenCity cur rently Europe s largest urban development project cover ing a total area of 157 hectares 388 acres After comple tion of the development with a university a shopping mall schools childcare centers offices residential buildings subway stations the conservation of the old warehouses a skyscraper and naturally the world famous Elbphil harmonie concert hall by 2030 120 000 people are ex pected to live and work in the district THE AUTHORS The authors Volker Paulun left a native of Hamburg and Frede rick Unflath a resident of Munich discovered so many exciting ur ban transformation projects that they could have filled half the magazine with them Some of them like the mon umental Michigan Central Station in Detroit are still like sleeping beauties just waiting for some bold transform ers to awaken them HAFENCITY HAMBURG London pursued a different path In the area of the former King George V Dock the London City Airport was built While other city airports are closing the one on the Thames is growing a rede velopment project is planned to increase capacity to eight million passengers per year WATER TURNS INTO AIR glo b a l 27

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