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Reviewed in this essay:Han Meyer City and Port: Urban Planning as a Cultural Venture in London, Barcelona, New York, and Rotterdam. Changing Relations between Public Urban Space and Large Scale InfrastructureRichard Marshall (ed.) Waterfronts in Post‐Industrial CitiesRaymond W. Gastil Beyond the Edge: New York's New Waterfront

Chris Brenner Work in the New Economy: Flexible Labor Markets in Silicon ValleyMary Chayko Connecting: How We Form Social Bonds and Communities in the Internet AgeDavid N. Pellow and Lisa Sun‐Hee Park The Silicon Valley of Dreams: Environmental Justice, Immigrant Workers, and the High‐Tech Global Economy

This comparative study identifies many parallels between local histories and developments in the Asian and European port cities as well as new opportunities for sharing experiences and learning from the developments and decisions in similar situations in other port cities.

Ports and cities are historically strongly linked, but the link between port and city growth has become weaker. Economic benefits often spill over to other regions, whereas negative impacts are localised in the port-city. How can ports regain their role as drivers of urban economic growth and how can negative port impacts be mitigated? Those are the questions that this report aims to answer.

Heritage is a social construct: it is the way contemporary society relates to its past, and transforms the past for current experiences. Heritage is the product of contemporary political, social and economic requirements from different stakeholders. Similar to Western countries, Chinese heritage thinking and practice has seen a move away from restrictive preservation to more dynamic management, from opposition to development, from adjustment to adaptive reuse, and from an expert-based 'authorized heritage discourse' to a more community-led process. This thesis focuses on Chinese port cities with a colonial past: Hong Kong, Macao, Qingdao and Taipei. It explores the present dynamics of heritage conservation, management and interpretation in these post-colonials, but otherwise culturally Chinese, cities. The primary purpose of this study is to gain insight in heritage interpretations and potential dissonance among stakeholders in these post-colonial cities. Colonial pasts can be contested – especially when used as heritage for contemporary purposes. Comparing experiences from four cities that have various colonial experiences and function in different current political, economic and social situations, sheds light on the role of the local context in heritage issues. This dissertation starts off by exploring the (changing) interaction between Chinese and Western notions of heritage conservation in China. It then presents a model for urban morphology of colonial port cities and applies this model to the spatial development of the four case study cities. Chapters 4 – 7 discuss the place of colonial heritage in Chinese colonial port cities from political and economic perspectives, whereas Chapters 8 and 9 focus on the (potential of) public participation in heritage issues.