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Transforming Urban Waterfronts: Fixity and Flow: Routledge Advances in Geography

Editat de Gene Desfor, Jennefer Laidley, Quentin Stevens, Dirk Schubert
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 sep 2012
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780415811453
ISBN-10: 0415811457
Pagini: 352
Ilustrații: 46 black & white illustrations, 5 black & white tables, 44 black & white halftones, 2 black & white line drawings
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.65 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Seria Routledge Advances in Geography

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Cuprins

Introduction: Fixity and Flow of Urban Waterfront Change  Section 1: The Waterfront and the City  1. Maritime Ports and the Politics of Reconnection  2. Fragmentation on the Waterfront: Coastal Squatting Settlements and Urban Renewal Projects in the Caribbean  3. Dockland Regeneration, Community, and Social Organization in Dublin  4. Waterfront Revitalizations: From a Local to a Regional Perspective in London, Barcelona, Rotterdam, and Hamburg  Section 2: Global and Local Dynamics on the Waterfront  5. Urban Waterfront Transformation as a Politics of Mobility: Lessons from Seattle’s Alaskan Way Viaduct Debate  6. London Docklands Revisited: The Dynamics of Waterfront Development  7. San Francisco’s Waterfront in the Age of Neoliberal Urbanism  8. New York City’s Waterfronts as Strategic Sites for Analyzing Neoliberalism and its Contestations  Section 3: Naturalizing Development and Developing Nature  9. Deep Water and Good Land: Socio-Nature and Toronto’s Changing Industrial Waterfront  10. Visibility and Contamination on the Buenos Aires Waterfront: Under the Bridges of Puerto Madero and La Boca  Section 4: New Practices of Property-Led Development  11. The German ‘City Beach’ as a New Approach to Waterfront Development  12. Exploring Innovative Instruments for Socially Sustainable Waterfront Regeneration in Antwerp and Rotterdam  13. Flows of Capital and Fixity of Bricks in the Built Environment of Boston: Property-Led Development in Urban Planning?  Conclusion: Patterns of Persistence: Trajectories of Change

Recenzii

"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."
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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. 149-151

Descriere

The collection engages with major theoretical debates and empirical findings on how waterfronts transform and have been transformed in port-cities in North and South America, Europe, and the Caribbean. It brings together authors from a broad range of disciplinary backgrounds to tackle vital questions of waterfront development.