RENOVATION OF THE PORT TERRITORIES IN THE HISTORICAL PART OF THE CITIES

Abstract

The article defines the urban planning, economic, transport, environmental and aesthetic problems from the location of the port areas near proximity to the center. The disadvantages of the current position of the borders of cargo terminals and the associated transport and logistics infrastructure of Odessa are described, as well as the advantages of transferring the port outside the city and changing the functional purpose of the released space. The world tendencies of port territories renovation and their influence on the stable economic development of big cities with simultaneous providing guarantees of social safety sphere based on their: history; reasons which led to the necessity of changes; process of transformations is analyzed. The organic connection between the basic principles of renovation transformations and the emergence of positive changes in the social and economic spheres is traced. Examples of international experience of such changes in Genoa, Cape Town, and Marseille in the late XX – early XXI centuries are considered.