Vigo Waterfront Available to Purchase

During the 1950s and 1960s, changes in economic conditions and the introduction of new transportation technologies resulted in the abandonment of large tracts of urban industrial waterfronts. These derelict and under-utilised urban waterfronts have come to be seen as an important cultural public domain, reflecting a ‘cultural turn’ in post-modern and post-industrial society. Since the early successful urban waterfront regeneration in Baltimore, in the so-called ‘Baltimore syndrome’ urban waterfronts around the world became centres of urban renaissance during the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s. The successful stories are widely discussed by planners, architects, developers and urbanists.

Vigo Waterfront describes another successful...