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Author: Melanie K. Smith
Publisher: CABI
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 1845931319
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSustainable and integrated regeneration in the context of culture and tourism is explored for the first time within this book. The text is enhanced by international case studies.
Author: Harry C. Smith
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWaterfront Regeneration presents a framework to help understand the complexity of waterfront redevelopment as city-building. It uses this framework to examine how several cities around the North Sea have been experimenting with different approaches to waterfront regeneration over the last decade. The book explores how resources, regulations and ideas have influenced the redevelopment of these waterfront areas, through the creation of new design and development processes, the participation of different stakeholders (including planners, urban designers and architects, politicians, developers, landowners and community groups) and the experimentation with innovative design approaches, particularly in relation to public spaces. The book also offers some reflection on future trends and priorities in waterfront regeneration and redevelopment around the North Sea and worldwide.
Author: Harry Smith
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-03-12
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 113647899X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWaterfront regeneration and development represents a unique opportunity to spatially and visually alter cities worldwide. However, its multi-faceted 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 analyzing 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. The book opens with an introduction to waterfront regeneration and then provides a framework for analyzing and comparing waterfront redevelopments, which is followed by individual case study chapters highlighting specific topics and issues including land ownership 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' into plans and the realization that climate change adaptation needs to be explicitly integrated into 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.
Author: Maurizio Carta
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-03-22
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 331928004X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book presents a new paradigm of knowledge and action with respect to urban waterfronts and the “fluid city paradigm,” explaining its methodological framework and describing an integrated and creative planning approach in which waterfront regeneration is pursued as a key urban-renewal strategy. It focuses especially on the WATERFRONT project (“Water And Territorial policiEs for integRation oF multisectoRial develOpmeNT”), which was funded jointly by Italy and Malta with the goal of developing common guidelines, strategies, and operational tools for the planning of coastal areas, based on cross-border exchange of experiences. In the described approach, the waterfront is recognized as having a broad identity, acknowledging the complexity of the relationship between seaport and town and taking into account the physical and environmental components of human settlement, infrastructure, and productive and recreational activities. It highlights details of the process of renewal in the port city of Trapani, with discussion of the implemented actions, plans, and programs. The book also examines the practices adopted to transform city–port relationships across Europe in pursuit of innovative and sustainable development.
Author: Dimitra Babalis
Publisher: Altralinea Edizioni
Published: 2017-06-19
Total Pages: 80
ISBN-13: 8894869024
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores potentialities and emerging issues to strategies and waterside planning and design, developing research results and detailed cases of interest in response to city change, to promote sustainable development in a variety of ways. It seeks to include some key waterfront matters in linking new spatial patterns to social dynamics and climate change, for future practice. The book is structuring into two parts: The first one – ‘Advancing Riverfront Transformation’ – examines proposals on urban waterfronts and relations between urban spaces and social dynamics to revitalise and re-appropriate urban environment with sustainable design solutions. The second one – ‘Outlining Blue-Green Opportunities’ – develops proposals on waterfront urban spaces and places with promotion of sociability and enjoyment, integrating cultural and economic values, health and wellbeing.
Author: Hongtao Xie
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 105
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUrban waterfront areas in the U.S. have been through a significant depression due to the traditional industries' decay. While the waterfront revitalization comes along with the demand of sustainability and high urban living standards. More and more waterfronts have oriented their regeneration from pedestrian culture, which stands for a vibrant and sustainable space to revive the image of the cities. In an effort to explore an urban design strategy which can effectively enhance the riverfront experience, this thesis introduces an application of a weighted indicator system and draws the conclusion through comparison analysis. Furthermore, the benchmark will be built via the summarization of the case study and the outcomes quantized by the indicator system. Downtown Jacksonville will be set up as a main case to examine the feasibility and applicability of the indicator system, with comparison to the two well-known waterfront redevelopment projects - Baltimore Inner Harbor and North Shore Pittsburgh. Recommendations for Downtown Jacksonville will be reached, and the significance and limitations of the research will be discussed based on the comparison analysis.
Author: Heleni Porfyriou
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-08-05
Total Pages: 267
ISBN-13: 1317269160
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWaterfronts Revisited addresses the historical evolution of the relationship between port and city and re-examines waterfront development by looking at the urban territory and historical city in their complexity and entirety. By identifying guiding values, urban patterns and typologies, and local needs and experiences, cities can break the isolation of the harbor by reconnecting it to the urban structure; its functions, spaces and forms. Using the UNESCO recommendation for the "Historic Urban Landscape" as the guiding concept and a tool for managing urban preservation and change, this collection of essays illustrates solutions to issues of globalisation, commercialization of space and commoditisation of culture in waterfront development. Through sixteen selected case studies, Editors Heleni Porfyriou and Marichela Sepe offer planners and urban designers a broad spectrum of alternative solutions to waterfront regeneration interventions and redevelopments, addressing sustainability, regional cultural diversity, and the debate between conservation and transformation.
Author: Marco Maretto
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2017-03-23
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 1326945238
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWorkshops in Architecture and Urban Morphology (WAM) is an educational-scientific tool directed to the basic themes of Architecture and Urban Design. Urban Morphology is the main instrument used for these experiences. Each workshop involves one or more institutions (universities, municipalities, foundations) and is coordinated by academics and practitioners. It is held in three stages: a first one, methodological, during which the participants (M.Sc. students) learn the main instruments of Urban Morphology and apply them to the "structural" reading of the project area; a second phase, the in-the-field Workshop, during which they verify the reading and set up the project's main frame. A third and final phase is then entirely dedicated to the environmental design and to the preparation of the final project. This series aims at documenting the possible educational/operative outcomes of a "morphological" design methodology for the contemporary sustainable city.
Author: Donna Erickson
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2012-09-26
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 1597266124
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn metropolitan areas across the country, you can hear the laments over the loss of green space to new subdivisions and strip malls. But some city residents have taken unprecedented measures to protect their open land, and a growing movement seeks not only to preserve these lands but to link them in green corridors. Many land-use and urban planning professionals, along with landscape architects and environmental advocates, have joined in efforts to preserve natural areas. MetroGreen answers their call for a deeper exploration of the latest thinking and newest practices in this growing conservation field. In ten case studies of U.S. and Canadian cities paired for comparative analysis-Toronto and Chicago, Calgary and Denver, and Vancouver and Portland among them-Erickson looks closely at the motivations and objectives for connecting open spaces across metropolitan areas. She documents how open-space networks have been successfully created and protected, while also highlighting the critical human and ecological benefits of connectivity. MetroGreen's unique focus on several cities rather than a single urban area offers a perspective on the political, economic, cultural, and environmental conditions that affect open-space planning and the outcomes of its implementation.
Author: Şebnem Gökçen Dündar
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2014-10-21
Total Pages: 395
ISBN-13: 1443870307
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew Faces of Harbour Cities explores the changing so-called “faces” of harbour cities. Whilst urban regeneration and harbour cities are discussed as related realms within the wider field of urban competitiveness, few studies have attempted to give place to the broader set of economic, social, legal, environmental and cultural dimensions of urban waterfront regeneration in harbour cities concerning not only Western and Northern Europe, but also Aegean and Mediterranean cities. The book provides a multi-disciplinary, yet holistic analysis of the port-city interface as a major goal of creating new domains of entrepreneurial activity. Offering noteworthy potential, the abandonment of port districts offers new opportunities in placing brownfield port areas back into public use through their comprehensive revitalization. With the rapid growth of special interest in the waterfront regeneration of port districts, many harbour cities in the world are making an effort to give their cities a brand new “face”. However, there are still specific cases showing that this goal may not always find success, as is discussed for various cities in this book. Key features of the book include a highly readable discussion of the relationship between urban waterfront regeneration and port cities that both address to the evolution of the port-city interface and contemporary patterns of activity. The book also includes a wide range of international case studies in both developed and developing cities, whilst providing a balanced view of the critical issues and related cases. While focusing on key themes, the discussion also considers the critique of issues such as risk management, legal challenges in planning and the balance between the need for logistic activities and brownfield regeneration of port districts as a major asset in terms of urban image. As such, New Faces of Harbour Cities will serve as an important reference to academic studies that explore key themes such as urban waterfront regeneration, brownfield development, the port-city interface, green energy, mixed-use regeneration, and legal aspects in planning.
