b'SYDNEY - BOSTON - FUKUOKA 2018 - 2019delivering major economic returns as well on the designacademic discourse, these complementary perspectives dividend principle.have far-reaching ramifications including the understanding of space as relational rather than container space (Amin HafenCity is the largest urban redevelopment project in2004, Lefebvre 1991, Malpas 2012). Hamburg. The district is essentially an extension of the city centre, which it enlarges by about 40%. It covers a landNew arrangementsarea of 127 hectares and envisages the construction ofIn practical terms, Hamburgs new situation in the Gateway 7,500 homes for 15,000 residents, offices for 45,000 jobs,City context resulted in immediate activities by the Hamburg several universities, schools and a wide range of commercialSenate, which were carried out under the cloak of secrecy in and cultural buildings including the iconic Elbphilharmonieorder to avoid speculation. By 1991, the Senate had initiated concert hall (opened 2017) by 2025. Around 100,00 visitorsa new strategic harbour development plan and soon after, per day are expected to be accommodated. the municipal agency for harbour and location development - Gesellschaft fr Hafen- und Standortentwicklung Gmbh The Gateway City context(GHS) - began buying back crucial parts of the derelict Hamburg is a city state with today about 1.8 millionharbour areas south of the central city from the long-term inhabitants situated on the River Elbe some 110 kmleaseholders. By 1997, GHS had succeeded in secretly upstream from the North Sea. The city has traditionally beentaking control of all required plots, and on 7 May 1997, the known and branded as Germanys Gateway to the WorldMayor of Hamburg, Henning Voscherau revealed a new (das Tor zur Welt). During the years of Germanys politicalstrategic harbour development plan to the public. separation into the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic 1949-1989/1990, the loss theThe dimensions of the project and the planning culture of citys hinterland and its connection to the east meant that itsthe period in which it materialised, alongside other Urban traditional gateway functions had been severely impaired.Renaissance projects, meant that traditional institutional146136Germanys reunification and more broadly the collapse of thearrangements and planning instruments were recognised communist bloc revived a broad discussion on the conceptas unsuitable tools. At the institutional level, the City State of gateway cities such as Sea Ports as Gateways in aof Hamburg created a development agency, the HafenCity Coalescing Europe (Nuhn 1996) and European Cities in theHamburg GmbH (HCH). This quasi autonomous non-World City Network (Taylor 2002).Oriented towards large- governmental organization is a 100% subsidiary acting as scale, global connections, the Gateway City concept takes aa trustee of the state-owned lands, from the sale of which it perspective that is diametrically opposite to those formulatedfinances its activities including those of development planner by Christaller and von Thnen, which focus on the localand entrepreneurial master developer. Until 2013 this budget and regional supply situation (Heintel & others 2008). Inalso served to finance construction of the new container Master of Urban Development & Design 2018-2019Fukuoka design 8pt.indd 23 26/11/2019 5:07:03 PM'