The new waterfront : a worldwide urban success story / Ann Breen and Dick Rigby.

Main entry:

Breen, Ann.

Title & Author:

The new waterfront : a worldwide urban success story / Ann Breen and Dick Rigby.

Publication:

New York : McGraw-Hill, 1996.

Description:

224 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 218-219) and index.
Introduction -- Major waterfront transformations -- The commercial waterfront -- The cultural and educational waterfront -- Historic waterfronts -- The recreational waterfront -- The residential waterfront -- The working waterfront and transportation -- Gazetteer.

Summary:

Making telling use of hundreds of photographs, Ann Breen and Dick Rigby analyze key waterfront developments from around the world in seven major themes: commercial (public enjoyment of the waterfront via cafes and restaurants, hotels, shopping and socializing); cultural and educational (in which museums and concert halls, ecological parks and modern aquariums are made attractive and accessible); historic (with a focus on the structures of past generations, modernized to take into account today's needs and tastes); recreational (parks and walkways, marinas and play areas); residential (urban projects rather than resorts); and working waterfronts (featuring today's continued industrial uses of center-city waterfronts, an often-forgotten aspect of the new waterfront). The authors also select some of the most dramatic waterfront makeovers for inclusion in a separate chapter on "Major Transformations."
These include vast projects, but also smaller efforts with significant community impact. Dozens of schemes are discussed in detail, and nearly a hundred are put into context in the illustrated gazetteer at the end of the book, revealing waterfront regeneration as a truly universal phenomenon of our time. Authoritatively written, meticulously researched and spectacularly illustrated, The New Waterfront is an indispensable resource for architects, urban planners, developers, landscape designers and students - a book that will also have a much wider appeal for anyone lured by the attraction of the water's edge.

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Publisher description

ISBN:

0070074542
9780070074545

Subject:

Urban renewal Case studies.
Waterfronts Case studies.
Urban ecology (Sociology)
Urban ecology (Biology)
Rénovation urbaine Cas, Études de.
Fronts de mer Études de cas.
Écologie urbaine.
Rénovation urbaine Études de cas.
urban environments.
Urban renewal
Waterfronts
Urban ecology (Sociology) Case studies.

Form/genre:

Case studies.
Études de cas.

Added entries:

Rigby, Dick.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 136309
Call No.: ID HT170.B74; ID:97-B99
Status: Available

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