| With secondary industry having been transformed into tertiary industry, the traditional industry bases on water was most probably declined. Lots of industry buildings of waterfront ware disused. The zones of traditional industry were dismanting. This results in not only wasteful resources or energy, but also hostile urban development. industry building did not have the value of traditional culture as historic building. However, as a part of city tissue, the industry building is a specific feature of the city, containing the history of urban development and being closely bound up with our life.  From the time of 1920's, there have already had plenty of successful redevelopment of waterfront in Europe and America. In most area of waterfrontre, wharf or port has become beautiful and fashionable area. Which produced a set of systematic theory of waterfrontre development. Compared to Europe and America, China just made a start in the research of waterfrontre development. Therefore, the study attempts to discuss a serial of problems such as how to recognize the old industrial estate of waterfront, how to redevelop it, how to protect it and how to design it. The article, with an attitude of respect for history and industrial culture on the redevelopment of old industrial estate, suggests that the waterfront redevelopment should be combined with the preservation and reuse of the area of industrial build, and then it make its way to the sustainable development. Only in this way can the local figure and site spirit of urban waterfront be shown forth. |