Conference Programme

09.30 Chairman's Welcome: Day 2

• Richard Meegan, Reader, European Institute for Urban Affairs (EIUA), Liverpool John Moore University
• Cultural Strategies In European Port Cities
  Franco Bianchini, Professor of Cultural Policy and Planning, Leeds Metropolitan University
  What contribution do cultural strategies make to urban regeneration? A comparative study of European port cities and the key issues and themes around the design, implementation, effectiveness and sustainability of cultural strategies.
• Caring for Port Cities
  Dr Ray Bondin, Expert advisor, former Assistant Secretary General to the International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)
  An outline of lessons learnt from the long-term conservation of the historic port of Valletta, Malta, and how can these be applied in other port cities.
• Tensions in Transformation
  Dr Niamh Moore, School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Policy, University College Dublin
  Can heritage and economic development complement rather than conflict with each other, or indeed is this desirable? This talk focuses on the maritime heritage of Dublin and other cities undergoing rapid transformation.
• Fundamental Principles
  Eddie Friel, Professor of Hospitality Training and Research, Niagara University
  American waterfront cities struggle to preserve their cultural heritage in the light of declining populations and the scars of post-industrialisation. The scale of poverty in urban regions such as New Orleans continues to reach levels that are an affront to any civilised society. We need to re-assert the fundamental principle that places are for people first and restoring communities demands more than just architectural restoration.
• Is All Tourism Beneficial?
  John McCarthy, Reader in Urban Studies, Heriot-Watt University
  Not all regeneration initiatives in port cities are beneficial. The advantages and disadvantages, impacts, costs and benefits that come from the expansion of tourism are discussed in the context of European cities.
• Culture as a Catalyst - Cities on the Edge
  Kris Donaldson, Director, Liverpool Culture Company;
  Sydney Olympic Games Organising Committee member Is culture a catalyst for tourism? Can it improve the quality of life and stimulate waterfront economic regeneration? Liverpool’s unique role as a port city has come to the fore through its status as 2008 European Capital of Culture.
• Plan the City With the Port
  Olivier Lemaire, General Manager, International Association of Cities and Ports, France
  How can ports and cities invent new ways of growing together? How can they meet the challenge of balancing the demands for economic growth alongside those of the natural and historic environments?
   

Day two workshops

Regeneration and planning

• B1 The Port Owner’s Perspective
  Lindsey Ashworth, Development Director, Peel Developments (UK) Ltd
  Explore the opportunities for regeneration from a port owner’s perspective; discuss the specific issues that long-term and large-scale regeneration has for waterfront sites. The Peel Group is the  Uk’s second largest port operator.
• B2 The Developer’s Perspective
  Steve Parry, Managing Director, Neptune Developments
  How can developers successfully operate within the constraints and opportunities particular to waterfront regeneration in historic environments? A case study on maximising the wider benefit of physical development through use of local labour and training initiatives.
• B3 Fit for Purpose?
  Dennis Rodwell, Urban Development Consultant
  Do planning systems fit the current needs of historic port cities? What are the key planning issues that affect port cities around the world? Participants will be invited to make short presentations on key issues and themes followed by an open discussion.
• B4 Re-animate
  David Geddes, International Tourism Consultant, Locum Consulting
  How can we make redundant docklands more attractive through successful regeneration strategies and sustainable models for tourism development?

Historic Environment

• B5 Re-gaining Gdañsk’s Water Spaces
  Lucyna Nyka, Associate Professor, Faculty of Architecture,
  University of Technology, Gdañsk
  Explore how culture-led regeneration has been successfully used to re-brand and redevelop Gdañsk’s waterside areas and how the port’s heritage has been repositioned.
• B6 A Positive Image
  Dr René Borruey, Research Fellow,
  Marseille Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture
  A Marseille case study and critical appraisal of how port cities have created a positive image for themselves through revitalising and transforming waterfront spaces to become attractive parts of cities.

Changing communities

• B7 Changing Audiences
  Tony Tibbles, Director, Merseyside Maritime Museum
  Franz Loomijer, Director, Maritime Museum, Rotterdam
  Explore the way in which Maritime Museums have reacted to the dramatic changes in the nature of post-industrial port cities and the changing relationship between people, docks and the sea.
• B8 Creating Carnival
  Pax Nindi, Artistic Director of St Paul’s Carnival, Bristol; Vice President, World Carnival Commission
  Gain an overview of carnival and its value as a tool for cultural engagement, expression of diversity and the telling of multiple histories. Giles Agis, Executive Director, Brouhaha International A case study highlighting the four-year Liverpool Carnival project telling the story of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, concluding 2008.
• B9 Ports, Petticoats and Power
  Dr Sheryllynne Haggerty, University of Nottingham
  Investigate the lives of women and their work in the British-Atlantic (c.1750-1833). Themes include the effect of the wider economic situation, race, legal constraints and social and cultural issues.