Desfor / Laidley / Stevens Transforming Urban Waterfronts

Fixity and Flow
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-1-136-89772-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Geography

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Desfor, Gene

Laidley, Jennefer

Stevens, Quentin

Schubert, Dirk

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Fixity and Flow of Urban Waterfront Change Gene Desfor and Jennefer Laidley Section I: The Waterfront and the City 1. Maritime Ports and the Politics of Reconnection Peter V. Hall and Anthony Clark 2. Fragmentation on the Waterfront: Coastal Squatting Settlements and Urban Renewal Projects in the Caribbean Mélanie Gidel 3. Dockland Regeneration, Community, and Social Organization in Dublin Astrid Wonneberger 4. Waterfront Revitalizations: From a Local to a Regional Perspective in London, Barcelona, Rotterdam, and Hamburg Dirk Schubert Section II: Global and Local Dynamics on the Waterfront 5. Urban Waterfront Transformation as a Politics of Mobility: Lessons from Seattle’s Alaskan Way Viaduct Debate Kevin Ramsey 6. London Docklands Revisited: The Dynamics of Waterfront Development Sue Brownill 7. San Francisco’s Waterfront in the Age of Neoliberal Urbanism Jasper Rubin 8. New York City’s Waterfronts as Strategic Sites for Analyzing Neoliberalism and its Contestations Susanna Schaller and Johannes Novy Section III: Naturalizing Development and Developing Nature 9. Deep Water and Good Land: Socio-Nature and Toronto’s Changing Industrial Waterfront Gene Desfor 10. Visibility and Contamination on the Buenos Aires Waterfront: Under the Bridges of Puerto Madero and La Boca Stephanie C. Kane Section IV: New Practices of Property-Led Development 11. The German ‘City Beach’ as a New Approach to Waterfront Development Quentin Stevens 12. Exploring Innovative Instruments for Socially Sustainable Waterfront Regeneration in Antwerp and Rotterdam Tuna Tasan-Kok and Yesim Sungu-Eryilmaz 13. Flows of Capital and Fixity of Bricks in the Built Environment of Boston: Property-Led Development in Urban Planning? Susanne Heeg. Conclusion: Patterns of Persistence: Trajectories of Change Quentin Stevens

Über Autor(innen)

Gene Desfor is Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar at York University.

Jennefer Laidley has been Project Manager for four years on the ‘Changing Urban Waterfronts’ research project, and has published articles on waterfront development in the academic journal Cities as well as in the periodicals Relay and Fuse.

Quentin Stevens is Senior Lecturer in Planning and Urban Design at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London.

Dirk Schubert is Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, Comparative Planning History, Housing and Urban Renewal at the HafenCity University.