Enhancing urban waterfront development: a groundbreaking framework for fostering creativity

Üzümcüoğlu, Doğa; Polay, Mukaddes

doi:10.1007/s10708-023-10958-8

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“…The third strand encompasses literature on the active redevelopment of waterfront sites [32]. One ought to recognize that, in the past decades, little-regulated industrial processes and lack of an appropriate normative environment led to the contamination and pollution of many waterbodies [63,68].…”

Section: Cities In the Northeast Of The United Statesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In many of these communities, these changes have created significant urban decline problems due to the abandonment and demolition of old piers, warehouses, and industrial, commercial, and even housing structures. Recent interests in the revitalization of waterfront areas are based on a new set of deeper and stronger economic values and forces that shape a new planning mentality, especially related to the creative economy [31,32].…”

Section: Pc#2 Northeastern Us Casesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Inland cities have had a relatively different evolution than their oceanside counterparts since some of their waterfront industrial properties have been preserved and adapted to new uses [30]. Tourism activities have taken advantage of these locations with many recreational activities, which promote cultural, sports, and community-oriented open-air events on the water-land interface [31,32].…”

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confidence: 99%

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Urban Revitalization in Small Cities across the Atlantic Ocean

Balsas

2024

Sustainability

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City centers and riverfronts across the Atlantic Ocean have undergone substantial transformation over the last two decades. This paper analyzes walk-only precincts and waterfront revitalization in two pairwise cases (PCs) of small city exemplars on two continents in locations at about the same latitude but separated by the Atlantic Ocean. The argument is twofold. First, to be fully effective, city center revitalization interventions need to be coordinated with appropriate institutional programs to create collaborative management opportunities among multiple civic and business agents. Second, multiple cultural offerings, environmental amenities, and pro-active leadership positionalities have contributed positively to the evolution of waterfront community economic redevelopment opportunities in riverfront locations. The methods involved multiple site visits to cities of various sizes on the Iberian Peninsula and the Northeast of the United States at different times during the last twenty years, extensive literature reviews and syntheses, data analyses, assessment of policy priorities, and interviews with employees in various economic sectors, business owners, residents, elected officials, planning professionals, and community leaders. Two of the main conclusions are that, to be fully effective, the public space interventions on the Iberian Peninsula had to be coordinated with appropriate regulatory and institutional programs to generate collaborations with multiple civic and business agents and that the Northeastern cities have attempted to revitalize their riverfronts by conserving water-based and urban historic assets and amenities from further erosion due to downpours and floods as well as socio-economic and cultural transformations.

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Urban Revitalization in Small Cities across the Atlantic Ocean

Balsas

2024

Sustainability

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“…Therefore, the preservation of historic neighborhoods is particularly critical to Beijing's waterfront regeneration. We can strengthen the connections between each waterfront reach and adjacent historic districts through urban design approaches, such as pedestrian transportation connections and waterfront route planning [52]. Depending on the specific circumstances of a particular waterfront reach, historical protection strategies can be achieved through different urban design approaches [45].…”

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“…Through the expansion and renovation of the waterfront corridor, the greenspace pattern of Beijing will be integrated, the relationship between water and greenspace will be strengthened, and a net-like urban greening system will be formed. Generally, shoreline structure design considers primarily engineering functionality, and these designs consequently have poor ecological functionality [52]. To increase the city's ecological carrying capacity, Beijing's waterfront's overall urban design should build ecological wetlands on the main rivers for flood drainage and increase the connection between the waterfront and other green spaces.…”

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Urban Waterfront Regeneration on Ecological and Historical Dimensions: Insight from a Unique Case in Beijing, China

Chen,

Leng,

Dai

et al. 2024

Land

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To address current ecological issues and a lack of historical preservation in Beijing’s waterfront, it has become necessary to establish an urban design project that optimizes these aspects. This study focuses on “Beijing’s Waterfront Overall Urban Design,” a project that integrates government requirements with Beijing’s waterfront urban design characteristics and problems to establish an urban layer system from two dimensions: historical and ecological. It explores how the urban layer system can be applied to Beijing’s overall waterfront urban design, from investigation to evaluation, analysis, visualization, and strategy development. First, an urban layer system for Beijing’s waterfront was established from a historical perspective, based on urban setting and construction stages and space utilization, referring to the literature and field surveys. The evolution of urban layers of waterbodies, the water–city relationship, and water functions was systematically analyzed. Second, an urban layer system was established for the ecological dimension of Beijing’s waterfront based on a literature review, expert interviews, and analytic hierarchy process methods. It included four urban layers: waterbody, greening, shoreline, and ecological function. The quality of the ecological urban design of 54 waterfront reaches in Beijing was evaluated using questionnaires and field surveys. Third, a series of urban layer maps was generated using the mapping method. Finally, urban design strategies were developed based on the combined historical and ecological characteristics and problems of Beijing’s waterfront. The results of this study and the concept of an urban layer system for waterfront urban design can benefit waterfront urban design projects and future studies.

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User Perceptions on the Urban Waterfront Development in the Kyrenia Ancient Harbour, including the Creative Individuals

Üzümcüoğlu,

Polay

2024

European Journal of Tourism, Hospitality and Recreation

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Various entities offer to evaluate the adequacy of applications for urban waterfront development. This study focused on the underlying assumptions that gave a comprehensive review of urban waterfront development projects and applications and analysed user impressions in Kyrenia Ancient Harbour. Visitors to Kyrenia, including employees, employers, students, and creative people, were asked to complete a questionnaire. This study discovered that the twelve underlying factors of creative waterfronts included awareness of people, promotion of entrepreneurs, creative spaces and activities, innovation, tolerance, physical comfort, political support, social cohesion, diversity of function, economic contribution, and cultural preservation. An evaluation of the creative environment at Kyrenia Waterfront found various degrees of user participation based on several statistical tests. Most community members saw the example area favourably due to its distinctive urban characteristics and socialisation possibilities. Locals, however, believe that creative folks require new technologies and ideas to be more productive.

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Enhancing urban waterfront development: a groundbreaking framework for fostering creativity

Cited by 4 publications

References 34 publications

Urban Revitalization in Small Cities across the Atlantic Ocean

Urban Revitalization in Small Cities across the Atlantic Ocean

Urban Waterfront Regeneration on Ecological and Historical Dimensions: Insight from a Unique Case in Beijing, China

User Perceptions on the Urban Waterfront Development in the Kyrenia Ancient Harbour, including the Creative Individuals

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