Transforming urban waterfronts : fixity and flow
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Transforming urban waterfronts : fixity and flow
(Routledge advances in geography, 3)
Routledge, 2011
- : hardback
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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
Introduction: Fixity and Flow of Urban Waterfront Change Section 1: The Waterfront and the City 1. Maritime Ports and the Politics of Reconnection 2. Fragmentation on the Waterfront: Coastal Squatting Settlements and Urban Renewal Projects in the Caribbean 3. Dockland Regeneration, Community, and Social Organization in Dublin 4. Waterfront Revitalizations: From a Local to a Regional Perspective in London, Barcelona, Rotterdam, and Hamburg Section 2: Global and Local Dynamics on the Waterfront 5. Urban Waterfront Transformation as a Politics of Mobility: Lessons from Seattle's Alaskan Way Viaduct Debate 6. London Docklands Revisited: The Dynamics of Waterfront Development 7. San Francisco's Waterfront in the Age of Neoliberal Urbanism 8. New York City's Waterfronts as Strategic Sites for Analyzing Neoliberalism and its Contestations Section 3: Naturalizing Development and Developing Nature 9. Deep Water and Good Land: Socio-Nature and Toronto's Changing Industrial Waterfront 10. Visibility and Contamination on the Buenos Aires Waterfront: Under the Bridges of Puerto Madero and La Boca Section 4: New Practices of Property-Led Development 11. The German 'City Beach' as a New Approach to Waterfront Development 12. Exploring Innovative Instruments for Socially Sustainable Waterfront Regeneration in Antwerp and Rotterdam 13. Flows of Capital and Fixity of Bricks in the Built Environment of Boston: Property-Led Development in Urban Planning? Conclusion: Patterns of Persistence: Trajectories of Change
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