ABSTRACT
Formerly industrial waterfronts in many German cities are, as in other developed countries, being revitalized with the typical range of large-scale cultural institutions, offi ce and housing complexes, public promenades, and green spaces (Hölzer et al. 2008). A parallel and much more distinctive trend is the rapid emergence and diffusion throughout the country of hundreds of small, temporary artifi cial beaches on inner-urban waterfronts.
