The Fluid City Paradigm: Waterfront Regeneration As An Urban Renewal Strategy (unipa Springer Series)
by Maurizio Carta /
2016 / English / PDF
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This book presents a new paradigm of knowledge and action with
respect to urban waterfronts and the “fluid city paradigm,”
explaining its methodological framework and describing an
integrated and creative planning approach in which waterfront
regeneration is pursued as a key urban-renewal strategy. It
focuses especially on the WATERFRONT project (“Water And
Territorial policiEs for integRation oF multisectoRial
develOpmeNT”), which was funded jointly by Italy and Malta with
the goal of developing common guidelines, strategies, and
operational tools for the planning of coastal areas, based on
cross-border exchange of experiences. In the described approach,
the waterfront is recognized as having a broad identity,
acknowledging the complexity of the relationship between seaport
and town and taking into account the physical and environmental
components of human settlement, infrastructure, and productive
and recreational activities. It highlights details of the process
of renewal in the port city of Trapani, with discussion of the
implemented actions, plans, and programs. The book also examines
the practices adopted to transform city–port relationships across
Europe in pursuit of innovative and sustainable development.
This book presents a new paradigm of knowledge and action with
respect to urban waterfronts and the “fluid city paradigm,”
explaining its methodological framework and describing an
integrated and creative planning approach in which waterfront
regeneration is pursued as a key urban-renewal strategy. It
focuses especially on the WATERFRONT project (“Water And
Territorial policiEs for integRation oF multisectoRial
develOpmeNT”), which was funded jointly by Italy and Malta with
the goal of developing common guidelines, strategies, and
operational tools for the planning of coastal areas, based on
cross-border exchange of experiences. In the described approach,
the waterfront is recognized as having a broad identity,
acknowledging the complexity of the relationship between seaport
and town and taking into account the physical and environmental
components of human settlement, infrastructure, and productive
and recreational activities. It highlights details of the process
of renewal in the port city of Trapani, with discussion of the
implemented actions, plans, and programs. The book also examines
the practices adopted to transform city–port relationships across
Europe in pursuit of innovative and sustainable development.