As a result of changes taking place in urban water front structures and updating views on the design and functioning of public space that took place in the post-industrial era, maritime yacht ports began to appear in the most attractive regions of coastal cities. Their center-forming potential is more and more often noticed and used in the processes of transformation of waterfront areas in port cities, in order to revive water fronts and also as a tool for creating a new identity of revitalized places and interesting urban spaces.