Waterfront Urban Space

Author : Dimitra Babalis
Publisher : Altralinea Edizioni
ISBN 13 : 8894869024
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Waterfront urban space written by Dimitra Babalis and published by Altralinea Edizioni . This book was released on 2017-06-19 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 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 : Elizabeth Macdonald
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317581350
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Waterfront Promenades written by Elizabeth Macdonald and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-06 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some cities have long-treasured waterfront promenades, many cities have recently built ones, and others have plans to create them as opportunities arise. Beyond connecting people with urban water bodies, waterfront promenades offer many social and ecological benefits. They are places for social gathering, for physical activity, for relief from the stresses of urban life, and where the unique transition from water to land eco-systems can be nurtured and celebrated. The best are inclusive places, welcoming and accessible to diverse users. This book explores urban waterfront promenades worldwide. It presents 38 promenade case studies—as varied as Vancouver’s extensive network that has been built over the last century, the classic promenades in Rio de Janeiro, the promenades in Stockholm’s recently built Hammarby Sjöstad eco-district, and the Ma On Shan promenade in the Hong Kong New Territories—analyzing their physical form, social use, the circumstances under which they were built, the public policies that brought them into being, and the threats from sea level rise and the responses that have been made. Based on wide research, Urban Waterfront Promenades examines the possibilities for these public spaces and offers design and planning approaches useful for professionals, community decision-makers, and scholars. Extensive plans, cross sections, and photographs permit visual comparison.

Author : Quentin Stevens
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000282899
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Activating Urban Waterfronts written by Quentin Stevens and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-12-15 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Activating Urban Waterfronts shows how urban waterfronts can be designed, managed and used in ways that can make them more inclusive, lively and sustainable. The book draws on detailed examination of a diversity of waterfronts from cities across Europe, Australia and Asia, illustrating the challenges of connecting these waterfront precincts to the surrounding city and examining how well they actually provide connection to water. The book challenges conventional large scale, long-term approaches to waterfront redevelopment, presenting a broad re-thinking of the formats and processes through which urban redevelopment can happen. It examines a range of actions that transform and activate urban spaces, including informal appropriations, temporary interventions, co-design, creative programming of uses, and adaptive redevelopment of waterfronts over time. It will be of interest to anyone involved in the development and management of waterfront precincts, including entrepreneurs, the creative industries, community organizations, and, most importantly, ordinary users.

Author : Harry Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113647899X
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Waterfront Regeneration written by Harry Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-12 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Waterfront 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 : Images
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781864707441
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Waterfront Promenade Design written by Images and published by . This book was released on 2017-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with 34 high-caliber projects from around the globe, and presented with beautiful full-color photographs and detailed plans, designers provide their unique insights into modern trends for rejuvenating river and coastal waterfronts into vital traversable public spaces people can enjoy.

Author : Bonnie Fisher
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remaking the Urban Waterfront written by Bonnie Fisher and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by expert architects and planners, this book explains the importance of and challenges inherent in transforming waterfronts into attractive community destinations.

Author : Raymond Gastil
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568983271
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Edge written by Raymond Gastil and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2002-10-25 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an insightful look at projects from around the world and at the current design proposals for New York itself, the author paints a portrait of redevelopment that is both pragmatic and visionary, one that holds the promise of reconnecting New Yorkers to their waterfront as a vital place of work and of public life."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Andrzej Kowalczyk
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030344924
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gastronomy and Urban Space written by Andrzej Kowalczyk and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-20 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the relationship between gastronomy and urban space. It highlights the intrinsic role of eating establishments and the gastronomy industry for cities by assessing their huge impacts on urban changes and discussing some of the challenges posed by new developments. Written by authors with a background in geography, it starts by discussing theoretical aspects of studies on gastronomy in urban space to place the subject in the broader context of urban geography. Covering both changes and challenges in gastronomy in urban space, it presents a wide range of problems, which are described and analysed using various case studies from Europe and other parts of the world.

Author : Gene Desfor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136897712
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transforming Urban Waterfronts written by Gene Desfor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-10-04 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In port cities around the world, waterfront development projects have been hailed both as spaces of promise and as crucial territorial wedges in twenty-first century competitive growth strategies. Frequently, these mega-projects have been intended to transform derelict docklands into communities of hope with sustainable urban economies—economies intended to both compete in and support globally-networked hierarchies of cities. This collection engages with major theoretical debates and empirical findings on the ways waterfronts transform and have been transformed in port-cities in North and South America, Europe, the Caribbean. It is organized around the themes of fixities (built environments, institutional and regulatory structures, and cultural practices) and flows (information, labor, capital, energy, and knowledge), which are key categories for understanding processes of change. By focusing on these fixities and flows, the contributors to this volume develop new insights for understanding both historical and current cases of change on urban waterfronts, those special areas of cities where land and water meet. As such, it will be a valuable resource for teaching faculty, students, and any audience interested in a broad scope of issues within the field of urban studies.

Author : Douglas M. Wrenn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Waterfront Development written by Douglas M. Wrenn and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: