Opis: Transforming Urban Waterfronts - Gene Desfor

Waterfronts continue to be spaces over which global, regional and local forces engage in intense struggles that influence socio-cultural changes and spatial restructuring processes. 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. "It is the broad scope of this text that is most appealing. It avoids any over simplification as it establishes the foundation for a comprehensive theory of urban waterfront development. While it makes no claim to offer such a theory, this text is a must read for anyone interested in moving beyond the platitudes of any single disciplinary perspective on waterfront change." -Robert G. Shibley, Professor of Architecture and Planning, and Director, The Urban Design Project, University at Buffalo, State University of New York "Going beyond a 'successful story', typology of waterfront visions, and how to make and remake 'charming' urban waterfront, this book gives critical and reflective perspectives on urban waterfront change by looking at it as a dynamic process of 'Fixity' and 'Flow' across space and time. Based on empirical findings from international experience, the book covers various issues on history, economic, politics, culture and biophysical, with full of tensions and contradictions." -Kasama Polakit, Florida Atlantic University "The book is very recommendable for its variety of new disciplinary approaches and for the widening of perspectives on problems and issues of waterfront transformations." -Hans Harms, HafenCity University, Hamburg, in Planning Perspectives, vol 27, no 1, p. 149-151Introduction: Fixity and Flow of Urban Waterfront Change Gene Desfor and Jennefer Laidley Section I: The Waterfront and the City 1. Maritime Ports and the Politics of Reconnection Peter V. Hall and Anthony Clark 2. Fragmentation on the Waterfront: Coastal Squatting Settlements and Urban Renewal Projects in the Caribbean Melanie Gidel 3. Dockland Regeneration, Community, and Social Organization in Dublin Astrid Wonneberger 4. Waterfront Revitalizations: From a Local to a Regional Perspective in London, Barcelona, Rotterdam, and Hamburg Dirk Schubert Section II: Global and Local Dynamics on the Waterfront 5. Urban Waterfront Transformation as a Politics of Mobility: Lessons from Seattle's Alaskan Way Viaduct Debate Kevin Ramsey 6. London Docklands Revisited: The Dynamics of Waterfront Development Sue Brownill 7. San Francisco's Waterfront in the Age of Neoliberal Urbanism Jasper Rubin 8. New York City's Waterfronts as Strategic Sites for Analyzing Neoliberalism and its Contestations Susanna Schaller and Johannes Novy Section III: Naturalizing Development and Developing Nature 9. Deep Water and Good Land: Socio-Nature and Toronto's Changing Industrial Waterfront Gene Desfor 10. Visibility and Contamination on the Buenos Aires Waterfront: Under the Bridges of Puerto Madero and La Boca Stephanie C. Kane Section IV: New Practices of Property-Led Development 11. The German 'City Beach' as a New Approach to Waterfront Development Quentin Stevens 12. Exploring Innovative Instruments for Socially Sustainable Waterfront Regeneration in Antwerp and Rotterdam Tuna Tasan-Kok and Yesim Sungu-Eryilmaz 13. Flows of Capital and Fixity of Bricks in the Built Environment of Boston: Property-Led Development in Urban Planning? Susanne Heeg. Conclusion: Patterns of Persistence: Trajectories of Change Quentin Stevens

Szczegóły: Transforming Urban Waterfronts - Gene Desfor

Tytuł: Transforming Urban Waterfronts
Autor: Gene Desfor
Producent: Routledge
ISBN: 9780415874939
Rok produkcji: 2010
Ilość stron: 352
Oprawa: Twarda
Waga: 0.61 kg

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