Permeabilidad, mixtura y escala: tres "Cosas Urbanas" en HafenCity

Abstract

A few cities around the world have been able to convert a segregated area, into one of the most important sectors for its´ development. Those areas were left aside, useless, unattractive, and inconsistent with contemporary way of living, relegated and sometimes denied as an integral part of the city. Cities with abandoned industrial areas or large scale equipment are common cases with these characteristics. It is interesting to highlight those cities that revalued these places, betting for the construction of a new city in, within their city. Cities like Hamburg, which opted for the HafenCity project that introduced a number of elements to retrieve the old and abandoned port area recovering the separate riverbank with a new urban place. This paper pretends to conduct a study on those significant features that allowed this project succeed creating city through urbanity using those things (Cosas Urbanas) Manuel de Solà Morales motivated us to develop in his text: A matter of thing.