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Transforming Urban Waterfronts

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Transforming Urban Waterfronts book

Fixity and Flow

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Transforming Urban Waterfronts book

Fixity and Flow
Edited ByGene Desfor, Jennefer Laidley, Quentin Stevens, Dirk Schubert
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2010
eBook Published 14 September 2010
Pub. Location New York
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203841297
Pages 352
eBook ISBN 9780203841297
Subjects Built Environment, Geography, Social Sciences, Urban Studies
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Desfor, G., Laidley, J., Stevens, Q., & Schubert, D. (Eds.). (2010). Transforming Urban Waterfronts: Fixity and Flow (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203841297

ABSTRACT

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |14 pages

Introduction: Fixity and Flow of Urban Waterfront Change

ByGENE DESFOR, JENNEFER LAIDLEY

part |2 pages

Part I: The Waterfront and the City

chapter 1|18 pages

Maritime Ports and the Politics of Reconnection

ByPETER V. HALL, ANTHONY CLARK

chapter 2|19 pages

Fragmentation on the Waterfront: Coastal Squatting Settlements and Urban Renewal Projects in the Caribbean

ByMÉLANIE GIDEL

chapter 3|20 pages

Dockland Regeneration, Community, and Social Organization in Dublin

ByASTRID WONNEBERGER

chapter 4|25 pages

Waterfront Revitalizations: From a Local to a Regional Perspective in London, Barcelona, Rotterdam, and Hamburg

ByDIRK SCHUBERT

part |2 pages

Part II: Global and Local Dynamics on the Waterfront

chapter 5|20 pages

Urban Waterfront Transformation as a Politics of Mobility: Lessons from Seattle’s Alaskan Way Viaduct Debate

ByKEVIN RAMSEY

chapter 6|22 pages

London Docklands Revisited: The Dynamics of Waterfront Development

BySUE BROWNILL

chapter 7|23 pages

San Francisco’s Waterfront in the Age of Neoliberal Urbanism

ByJASPER RUBIN

chapter 8|23 pages

New York City’s Waterfronts as Strategic Sites for Analyzing Neoliberalism and its Contestations

BySUSANNA SCHALLER, JOHANNES NOVY

part |2 pages

Part III: Naturalizing Development and Developing Nature

chapter 9|20 pages

Deep Water and Good Land: Socio-nature and Toronto’s Changing Industrial Waterfront

ByGENE DESFOR

chapter 10|22 pages

Visibility and Contamination on the Buenos Aires Waterfront: Under the Bridges of Puerto Madero and La Boca

BySTEPHANIE C. KANE

part |2 pages

Part IV: New Practices of Property-Led Development

chapter 11|22 pages

The German ‘City Beach’ as a New Approach to Waterfront Development

ByQUENTIN STEVENS

chapter 12|17 pages

Exploring Innovative Instruments for Socially Sustainable Waterfront Regeneration in Antwerp and Rotterdam

ByTUNA TAŞAN-KOK AND YESIM SUNGU-ERYILMAZ

chapter 13|21 pages

Flows of Capital and Fixity of Bricks in the Built Environment of Boston: Property-Led Development in Urban Planning?

BySUSANNE HEEG
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