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Transforming Urban Waterfronts
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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
part |2 pages
Part I: The Waterfront and the City
chapter 2|19 pages
Fragmentation on the Waterfront: Coastal Squatting Settlements and Urban Renewal Projects in the Caribbean
chapter 3|20 pages
Dockland Regeneration, Community, and Social Organization in Dublin
chapter 4|25 pages
Waterfront Revitalizations: From a Local to a Regional Perspective in London, Barcelona, Rotterdam, and Hamburg
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
chapter 8|23 pages
New York City’s Waterfronts as Strategic Sites for Analyzing Neoliberalism and its Contestations
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
chapter 10|22 pages
Visibility and Contamination on the Buenos Aires Waterfront: Under the Bridges of Puerto Madero and La Boca
part |2 pages
Part IV: New Practices of Property-Led Development