Aalborg

Aalborg is the 4th largest city in Denmark with a population of 163,000 inhabitants. Aalborg's waterfront regeneration area covers up to 200 hectares of former industrial sites on both sides of the fjord. Aalborg's regeneration challenges concern the phasing out of industrial production in its harbour areas and the transition to a knowledge based economy.

In 1999, as industry and harbour based enterprises began to vacate the central harbour areas, the City of Aalborg adopted a strategic plan, the "Fjord Catalogue" which identified the waterfront as a regeneration area. Regeneration began in 2002 with the plans for a new "house of music", the relocation of the local authority's offices to the waterfront, and plans for a new centre for architecture and a house of culture in a disused power station.

Aalborg's regeneration is strategically linked to cultural planning, housing policy and new economic initiatives, with an important element of the programme being the provision of high quality public areas along the waterfront, including new connections to the inner city.

As part of the project Aalborg led on the theme of Design quality and Public Realm.

Project team
Erik Møller - Project Co-ordinator
Anne Juel Andersen
Rie Malling
Bodil Henningsen
Ulla Kristensen
Hans Kiib

Links
City of Aalborg
Aalborg Waterfront

Downloads
Practitioner briefing link
Toolkit Chapter
Fjord Catalogue
Architectural Policy
Aalborg Harbourfront
Aalborg, Harbourscape - Email: Hans Kibb