Focusing on large-scale waterfront renewal, the most dynamic area of urban design today, this cutting edge review of award-winning waterfront designs explores the successful redevelopment of oceanfront, lakefront, and riverfront in urban centers around the world. Showcasing more than 100 international projects in maginificent full color, this beautifully produced design survey presents a rich and diverse portfolio of redevelopment work, including museums, restaurants, historic monuments, parks, housing, government facilities, trade centers, ship terminals, and retail stores. An ideal companion to the authors' highly praised Waterfronts: Cities Reclaim Their Edge, the book is an invaluable source of ideas, inspiration, and practical design guidance.
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Rising from the debris of old piers, out of the rubble of discarded (or bombed) industrial factories, and emerging from fenced-off precincts or on newly created land, major waterfront transformations are occurring around the globe today. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
waterfront projects, recreation cost, waterfront redevelopment, working waterfront, water cleanup, urban waterfronts, new waterfront, public walkway, port building Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Darling Harbour, Puerto Madero, Rowe's Wharf, Aker Brygge, Suntory Museum, Boat Quay, Monterey Bay, Minato Mirai, Singapore River, Sydney Opera House, Cape Town, New York, Pacifico Yokohama, Ring of Fire Aquarium, Hong Kong, Mexico City, Rhode Island, Sumidagawa River, Trade Mart, World War, Administrative Building, Australia Tel, Buenos Aires, Cosmo Square, Harumi Passenger Ship Terminal New!
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Front Cover | Front Flap | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Flap | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
Rising from the debris of old piers, out of the rubble of discarded (or bombed) industrial factories, and emerging from fenced-off precincts or on newly created land, major waterfront transformations are occurring around the globe today. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
waterfront projects, recreation cost, waterfront redevelopment, working waterfront, water cleanup, urban waterfronts, new waterfront, public walkway, port building Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Darling Harbour, Puerto Madero, Rowe's Wharf, Aker Brygge, Suntory Museum, Boat Quay, Monterey Bay, Minato Mirai, Singapore River, Sydney Opera House, Cape Town, New York, Pacifico Yokohama, Ring of Fire Aquarium, Hong Kong, Mexico City, Rhode Island, Sumidagawa River, Trade Mart, World War, Administrative Building, Australia Tel, Buenos Aires, Cosmo Square, Harumi Passenger Ship Terminal New!
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- Italian Aquascapes by Jinnai Hidenobu in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Rhode Island (Hello U.S.A.) by J. F. Warner on page 9, and Back Matter
- The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs on page 36, and Back Matter
- Inner Harbor (The Chesapeake Bay Saga, Book 3) by Nora Roberts in Back Matter
- The Image of the City (Harvard-MIT Joint Center for Urban Studies Series) by Kevin Lynch in Back Matter
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- Waterfronts in Post-Industrial Cities by Richard Marshall on page 13, and page 30
- A River and Its City: The Nature of Landscape in New Orleans by Ari Kelman in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Emerging Urbanity: Global Urban Projects in the Asia Pacific Rim by Richard Marshall on page 59, and Back Matter
- America's New Downtowns: Revitalization or Reinvention? (Creating the North American Landscape) by Larry R. Ford in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Toward the Livable City (The World As Home) by Emilie Buchwald on page 107
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