Waterfront Regeneration Experiences in City-building

• Other Authors: Smith, Harry C. (Editor), Garcia Ferrari, Maria Soledad (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Abingdon, Oxon [England] Earthscan 2012
• Subjects: Waterfronts > Case studies > North Sea Region; Communication in city planning > Case studies > North Sea Region
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 Waterfront regeneration and development represents a unique opportunity to atially and visually alter cities worldwide. However, its multifaceted nature entails city-building with all its complexity, including the full range of organizations involved and how they interact. This book examines how more inclusive stakeholder involvement has been attempted in the nine cities that took part in the European Union-funded Waterfront Communities Project. It focuses on analysing the experience of creating new public realms through city-building activities. These public realms include negotiation arenas in which different discourses meet and are created - including those of planners, urban designers and architects, politicians, developers, landowners and community groups - as well as physical environments where the new city districts' public life can take place, drawing lessons for waterfront regeneration worldwide. This book opens with an introduction to waterfront regeneration and then provides a framework for analysing and comparing waterfront redevelopments. Case study chapters highlight specific topics and issues, including landownership and control, decision- making in planning processes, the role of planners in public space planning, visions for waterfront living, citizen participation, design-based waterfront developments, a social approach to urban waterfront regeneration and successful place-making. Significant findings include the difficulty of integrating long-term 'sustainability' within plans and the realization that climate change adaptation needs to be explicitly integrated within regeneration planning. The transferable_insights and ideas in this book are ideal for practising and student urban planners and designers working on developing plans for long-term sustainable waterfront regeneration anywhere in the world.