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Originally Posted by MonkeyRonin
I'm sure even the smallest and most unsuccessful of cities could have at least 10 positive things - however insignificant they may be - identified as having happened in the past 10 years, so surely the likes of Hamburg would have a number of achievements. What about the beginning of HafenCity, for example?
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Originally Posted by Lear
Exactly.
For Hamburg I guess two new sport facilities are significant, the Colorline Indoor Arena (15.000 seats) and the AOL Football Arena (50.000 seats).
Hamburg was also the first German city in the last decade introducing blue police uniforms (formerly green). As a major event I would cite the World Cup matches in 2006 and the continuing appearences of mega luxury ocean liners, think of Queen Mary 2.
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I knew it, you would say HafenCity, but as this thread says 'TOP' Achievements, although improvements, i do not consider any of those things in Hamburg as 'Top'. It had some better amenities updates, like clean of Radisson tower, but most important is not already made in city, like reforming all S-Bahn stations. This would be more important and really an achievement for everybody. And not just some.
- Hafencity is a huge project, but very bad elaborated. None 'Skyscraper' really, none supertall, all only sames stylished midrises or lowrises with complicate and uninteligent architecture at all. All same unvertical line boxes. The roads are too small for the whole complex, too narrow for the expectancy would have there. In other words, the whole planning is very discutible in this way. For example Marco Polo Terasse is too close to this un-windowed or windows.shadowed Unilever bldg. And this project is not finished, so does not belong to this past decade. Too many has to be done, many delays. Living here i personally was dissapointed with this re-development there.
- Soccer stadiums are not achievements. This is just another very small buildings for a part of society, but not every population living in it.
- Police uniforms are not achievements at all. It is just like repaiting a house from blue to yellow, but not change the house at all.
- Ships come daily and go, they are move part of city but bring no fix improvements longer. QM2 only brought a 'cultural effect in population' to do city more festive in the days she comes, but nothing more.
- Maybe Airbus factory improvements with A380 and A320 family brought new technologies, but again, only to the factory, not to the city at all.
So all that are small achievements when you see a city in the bigger whole.
Scrsly, i did not see many huge improvements in city last decade. But if something comes as TOP is then the new cruise terminal in Altona, cause the 'container boxes' there is unbelievible for such huge Port city and developed country. Another huge contribution could be the double expansion of container docks, but as i said the next decade will be much more important than as the Last. Your thread was about the 'Top things in the Last'. so...