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Ecological design for urban waterfronts

Urban Ecosystems, 2014
Urban waterfronts are rarely designed to support biodiversity and other ecosystem services, yet have the potential to provide these services. New approaches that integrate ecological research into the design of docks and seawalls provide opportunities to mitigate the environmental impacts of urbanization and recover ecosystem function in urban ...
Karen Dyson, Ken Yocom
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Complexity on the urban waterfront

2004
The twentieth century has come to a close and we are left with an emblematic image of the end-of-the-century “city” which is difficult to connect with the one that opened this historic period in terms of continuity and development. The oldest parts have, of course, been conserved and almost always mark an identity, which has been maintained not only ...
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Handbook of Waterfront Cities and Urbanism

2022
Handbook of Waterfront Cities and Urbanism is the first resource to address cities’ transformations of their coastlines and riverbanks and the resulting effects on environment, culture, and identity in a genuinely global context. Spanning cities from Gdańsk to Georgetown, this reference for design, development, and planning explores the transition of ...
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The urban waterfront: Opportunities for renewal

National Civic Review, 1976
AbstractA complex set of forces has emerged which compels planners to consider the urban waterfront, traditionally not a major focus of attention by municipal governments, as a fundamental element in planning and managing cities. These forces are state and local coastal zone management programs, the decline of the urban port areas and a wide range of ...
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Financing Urban Waterfront Redevelopment

Journal of the American Planning Association, 1997
Abstract Urban waterfront redevelopment cannot be justified as a straightforward real estate investment, judging by this study of prominent projects in New York, London, Boston, and Toronto. Huge capital costs for land acquisition, site clearance and infrastructure are incurred years before significant private investment begins.
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Urban Waterfront Revitalization

1985
This paper provides an historical overview of the rise and fall…and rise again… of waterfronts in American cities. After examining the role of waterfronts in early American history, it traces factors contributing to the decline of urban waterfronts beginning in the late nineteenth century and factors contributing to the rediscovery of waterfronts since
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Mountain meets urban waterfront

Seismograf, 2016
An audio paper combining soundscapes from Norwegian mountains with a Danish urban, post-industrial waterfront.
Baixinho, Alexandra, Blom, Tine
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Based on the Urban Waterfront Landscape Image of the Waterfront Place Design

Applied Mechanics and Materials, 2014
By taking the comprehensive improvement of the environment of Xinxu River in Nanning City for example, the paper has analyzed the current situation of place image, interpreted the spirit of place, and considered that the place design should be based on characteristic and recognizable image, unified and diversified image, general and continuous image ...
Fang Jiang, Yan Ning Zheng
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Urban Waterfront Revivals of the Future

2017
Urban waterfronts form part of cities’ critical intersection between the natural and man-made environment, linking the city and its inhabitants with water. In the context of high density urban environments, they are integral to the network of green and public spaces and have the potential to encompass a range of uses including residential, commercial ...
Swinal Samant, Robert Brears
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Landscape design of urban waterfront

2008 9th International Conference on Computer-Aided Industrial Design and Conceptual Design, 2008
Derived from the glorious Chinese water culture, this article aims to discuss the relationship between urban and the water environment. Based on modern landscape design theory, this article analyze the prominent problems existing in the domestic urban shore water landscape, studies positively the urban shore water landscape that suits the Chinese ...
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