b'MUDD 24 URBAN NETWORKS|URBAN GATEWAYSSince 2011, the proportion of building plots in HafenCity for(Lieber 2018) and between social groups debating the subsidised housing has been increased from 20% to oneright to the city (Sonntag 2018). Public discussion of the third in an effort to increase the fine-grain mixture of usescomplex processes of planning and development guarantees and users to create an active, diverse community shaped bya lively and often controversial discussion in media, parameters of urbanity, social mix, ecological sustainabilitybodies, conferences, exhibitions and civic initiatives. Every and innovative development strategies. Introduction of ansingle principle and aim of the development process and ecological certification system, the HafenCity Ecolabel, hasachievements can be and has been challenged. While this triggered a considerable sustainability drive. may be unsettling, the productive coexistence and public interaction of positive appraisal with critical views is a forte of Development control does not stop at the point of landthe German approach to building culture and demonstrates allocation, land uses and design standards. Followingthe value of embracing a plurality of views through different ratification by the Hamburg Senate, the city retains its abilitywindows. of intervening in the development process over a period of 18-24 months of intense cooperation designed to optimize risks, costs, quality and time scales for both city and developer. As the ASTOC office believes, Good process management is more effective than a design handbook (ASTOC webpage). The development process has not gone uncontested, however, indeed this has been very much the case. Currently, for example, a community-based legal challenge is underway against the increase of retail space in the central city quarter of HafenCity, the bersee-Quartier. There, the collapse of projects in the Global Financial Crisis in 2009 led to a change in the development strategy and eventually to the involvement of the French retail consortium Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield with a proposal for 80,000 square metres of retail space, a huge increase on the 30,000 square metres originally plannedalmost a quarter of the retail space of Hamburgs entire CBD. While the developers argue that spreading the shops over 14 differently styled buildings is not producing a shopping mall, it appears to many that the planners have sold their convictions (Khler 2017).139 HafenCity has come a long way to arrive at todays 149development principles, and the processes are subject to constant review in intense public interaction, creative debate and political controversy. The very special development path that has emerged is the product of a distinctive building culture, somewhere between the strategies likely to be ascribed to the hard-nosed money-making elite of bankers and the pepper sacks of the old merchant city on the one side and a broad spectrum of actors, discussants and protesters on the other. Lines of conflict include the competition between port economy and urban development MUDD 24 - Urban Gateways | Urban Networks - Fukuoka Fukuoka design 8pt.indd 26 26/11/2019 5:07:05 PM'