Uploaded on 2016-07-22 by Edgar Valdes

A topographic common sense on Kiel harbor Much of the studies on the architectural scale have been appointed as the use of information at this level to reveal functionalities that can be enhances in order to make transform a city into a sustainable object. Less information has been giving on the overall sustainable chain by not just thinking about a single city but of a cluster of them. Even though it is a difficult task; some already progress can be made by grouping decision factor for every city and connect them into a complex object; whose characteristics can give information on the overall territorial structure and hence on the functionality specialization of a city. This work is something that we have been done under the name of “city clusters” but on this time –finalizing the advertising- we are going to explore an already functionality by just using the common sense: the specialization of harbor cities. A harbor, natural or man made, is a body of water where ships, boats or barges use ports for the uploading, transit and storage of deliverable –material and people-. On the photo we observe Kiel harbor. Kiel is the capital and most populous city in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein lying approximately 90 Km north of Hamburg and located in the north of Germany, the southeast of the Jutland peninsula and the southwestern shore of the Baltic Sea which has made it become one of the major maritime centers of Germany. Kiel has also been one of the traditional homes of the German Navy's Baltic fleet and an important transport hub - passenger ferries transport to Sweden, Norway, Russia, and other countries operate from here-. This attributes make it continuing to be a major high-tech shipbuilding Centre thanks to its location on the Kiel Fjord and the busiest artificial waterway in the world -Nord-Ostsee-Kanal-. Kiel’s main characteristics for the economical perspective created a necessity on the implementations of a more green characteristic. On this scope, Kiel is a founding member on the European Green capital Award initiative –that develops under the Tallin Memorandum- where it seeks to share best practices on ensuring the high quality on environment living to balance economic to a sustainable economic schema. From a social perspective, Kiel has managed to create a “city cluster” based on a knowledge warehouse shared among different cities with the same perspective: grow to an environmental harmonization with a well found economic natural characteristic.