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Waterfronts are regarded as one of the most crucial components of urban development as they connect water elements to the urban fabric. They provide residents with opportunities to engage in essential waterfront activities, which contribute to the area's social, economic, urban, and environmental importance. Urban places with waterfronts are more valuable and help people visualize certain scenes in their mind maps. Egypt boasts numerous waterfronts with distinct locations, particularly Port Said city, which overlooks the Suez Canal along the city's tourist walkway. This significant site is considered the cornerstone of the world and the meeting point of the continents of Asia and Africa. It holds a prominent position locally and globally in terms of global transport and trade, playing a vital role in achieving economic and environmental sustainability. Additionally, it holds historical value. However, despite these attributes, it faces various urban, economic, and environmental challenges. Consequently, the research idea emerged, highlighting the necessity of adopting a sustainable strategy to regenerate this vital area in terms of urban, economic, environmental, and social aspects while preserving its heritage and historical value. The research emphasizes three main aspects: firstly, a theoretical study that encompasses the definition and principles of urban waterfronts; secondly, an analytical study of one of the best international waterfronts worldwide (Kyrenia waterfront); and finally, an applied study that applies the most important criteria derived from the analytical study to the port said waterfront, with the aim of achieving a sustainable waterfront. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Resumo Este artigo discute o tema das políticas de waterfront regeneration (WR) no Brasil. Especificamente, propõe uma sociologia política dos processos institucionais de produção de tais intervenções através da análise dos casos dos projetos Porto Maravilha, no Rio de Janeiro (RJ), do Cais Mauá, em Porto Alegre (RS) e do Porto Novo e Novo Recife, em Recife (PE). Para tanto, articula uma leitura teórica de diferentes abordagens direcionadas aos fenômenos do político e do urbano a uma pesquisa empírica qualitativa de estudo de casos múltiplos baseado em análises documentais e entrevistas. Ao final, propõe um modelo analítico para interpretação dos casos com base na síntese teórica desenvolvida e, especialmente, na perspectiva neoinstitucionalista, e apresenta um enquadramento possível de leitura dos processos de produção de tais políticas no Brasil.

In 1973, in the midst of an economic downturn, New York City´s waterfront was envisioned as an enterprise for an urban renewal. This paper reflects on the interplay among a set of actors which was key in launching a more open, accessible, diverse and thrilling city´s edge. The intersecting condition among corporate capitalism, real estate, political interests and talented design illustrates the waterfront as particularly instrumental in the representation of a desire city to live in. However, the case study of two relevant built projects, Battery Park City and Gantry Plaza State Park, showcases different results in the challenge of the city´s waterfront strategy giving over its innovation, privileging instead the rapid commodification of the architecture and the unbalance between public and private interests.

For decades, a mega-event strategy to urban development has been popular with developers and politicians as a way to deliver fast results that can help to regenerate areas of cities and boost a city's global image. While this approach can deliver quick results in the short term, the literature has not yet investigated the lasting affects this has at an institutional level on city planning and decision-making processes over the long term. One interesting case to investigate this phenomenon is the city of Genoa, which hosted three large events over a period of 12 years to regenerate the city centre and reconnect it to its de-industrialized waterfront. While the 1992 Expo, 2001 G8 Summit and 2004 European Capital of Culture significantly altered the urban fabric of the city centre, this paper will take a closer look at the new approaches and strategies decision makers implemented in the planning of these events, analysing whether they continued to utilize these planning tools and approaches following the events. The paper finds that while the city improved in its planning of events through the process of hosting the three events, it struggled to maintain such innovative approaches as part of routine practice post-event. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article unravels the factors of affective dynamics that shape and sustain waterfront regeneration while critically examining the essence and influence of megaprojects. It examines why and how urban atmospheres can be provoked and manipulated to dominate the rationale, political orientations, intrinsic motivations, and power struggles behind waterfront landscapes. It provides explicit insight into how waterfront regeneration operates affectively and atmospherically through the convergence of emotion-focused planning, value-creation approaches, and affective adaptability to transform the physical and political landscape. Focusing on the 'Asia New Bay Area' (ANBA) project in Kaohsiung, this article explains why and how megaprojects can be accepted and supported by local people, despite a lack of professional evaluation, public participation, and revenue. The key claim of this article is that addressing the city's affective dynamics and atmospheric resonances is critical for understanding how megaprojects can be employed to direct public emotions and concerns. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article applies ideas about critical urban assemblages to understand the planning processes, politics, and delivery of waterfront regeneration from an Australian perspective, drawing on the Port Adelaide waterfront in South Australia as a case study. Waterfront regeneration is associated with global economic deregulation, market‐led development, changes to planning regulatory requirements, and "streamlined" governance arrangements. The global spread of waterfront regeneration is an outcome of such processes, with individual waterfronts being "remade" and reimagined to reflect priorities emphasised by those forging urban policies linked to inter‐urban competitiveness and neoliberal urbanism. Waterfront developments may be categorised as "models" of success or failure that limit deeper analysis that can advance theory and practice. How such projects reflect interactions across local and global scales rather than just being expressions of global forces is a question often ignored; so, too, are those considering how policy and politics mediate those relationships. Ideas, strategies, capital, people, policy, and politics are dynamic, provisional, and contested, and are produced and assembled in particular ways to suit specific spatiotemporal contexts. On that understanding, the aim of this article is to highlight how the Port Adelaide waterfront is undergoing assembly and reassembly to reflect socioeconomic priorities and metropolitan planning agendas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper examines the shifting planning logics and design principles presented in the emergence of 'performative planning' that frames the motivations and visions of recent megaprojects. I consider the emblematic landscape, persuasive imaginary and affective presence through which a regeneration megaproject manipulates public emotions as a tactic of performative planning. I suggest that performative planning is a constructed governing process through which prevalent affects are structured to justify subsequent policy decisions and actions. Based on a case study of 'Asia New Bay Area' project in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, this paper demonstrates that performative planning has increasingly underlined the shifting nature of spatial planning from rationality-based to emotion-orientated approaches. It also unfolds a major shift from crisis management to crisis adaptation, wherein public desires and emotions are now given significant consideration in both the policy agenda and the actual design of a regeneration megaproject. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article examines how affective atmospheres are constituted and used to sustain regeneration megaprojects. I argue that certain affective atmospheres engendered in particular urban contexts are essential to facilitating transformation in contemporary urban areas. Through the convergence of affective encounters, spatial imaginations and common goals in performative ways, affective atmospheres are forged and circulated to legitimise political decisions and urban policies. Moving beyond the conventional approach to examining waterfront regeneration, this paper attempts to capture the inherent relationship between affective dynamics and spatial practices that characterises megaprojects and dominates public opinion. The key claim of this article is that regeneration projects are emotionally mediated and sustained on the foundations of affective atmospheres in which myriad affects underlying everyday life are assembled to enhance municipal power and direct pubic concerns. The presented case study shows that the Asia New Bay Area (ANBA) project activated an affective atmosphere in a context-specific way, in which affective sensations situated in place experiences are assembled to challenge the physical and political landscape. It demonstrates that unfolding the city's affective, emotional and atmospheric resonances is critical to grasping how the megaproject can be justified and, furthermore, the orientation and rationale of spatial practices. Finally it outlines pragmatic suggestions for policy reform that address regeneration megaprojects in socially meaningful ways. • Affective atmospheres are forged and circulated to influence real-world policymaking. • The dynamics and effects of affective atmospheres underpin waterfront regeneration. • Urban Megaprojects are dynamically dominated by emotional and motivational responses to changing realities. • Decisionmakers tend to provoke and manipulate specific affective atmospheres to justify policy decisions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Highlights • Standard 'model' for city centre waterfront regeneration is high density apartment development. • Delivery of affordable housing is compromised by political pressures to unlock economic growth. • Developers can negate planning obligations on the basis of development viability. • Exceptions possible on public land, through public subsidy or on sites with economies of scale. • Basis of planning transformed by enabling developers to avoid policy-compliant development. Abstract The raison d'être of spatial planning is to secure public benefits or goods through the regulation of private development. Under neoliberalism, where economic growth is privileged over community interests, the ability of planning to deliver public goods can be compromised. The aim of this research was to investigate the delivery of mixed communities in the regeneration of waterfront sites in two outwardly comparable, but in detail, rather different port cities, namely Plymouth and Bristol. The range of dwelling types, extent of affordable housing and associated practicalities of delivery were evaluated using planning application data, 2000–2017 and semi-structured interviews with key stakeholder groups (local planning authority [LPA] officers, developers, land agents and politicians). The results indicate that there is a standard 'model' of delivery for port regeneration with city centre harbour-side land yielding high density apartment developments and with houses becoming the prevelent house type in suburban waterfront locations. Planning policies for social mixing have not, in general, been successfully implemented in waterfront sites due to the greater priority afforded to development viability and the political pressure to unlock and accelerate economic growth. The exception to these findings was where public land had been used. For both cities, just two per cent of the dwellings delivered on privately procured sites were affordable housing units compared to over 25% on public land. This paper highlights the effect of neoliberalisation on the English planning system, which enables developers to acquire sites without regard to local development plan policies. Such policies allow developers and landowners to negate planning obligations to provide affordable housing to the detriment of public good and trust in the system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper investigates the contemporary issues in waterfront regeneration strategies. It evaluates and analyzes the legacies from past international waterfront projects through case examples and review policies, practices, trends and issues that pertain to waterfront regeneration. The impact of these within urban regeneration and urban cultural contexts are in turn considered. In this respect, the paper tracks the changes from typical festival-type market regeneration initiatives of the 1980s and 1990s to more culturally and entrepreneurial-focused projects evidenced today. Contemporary issues that stakeholders should consider when evaluating waterfront projects are considered. The paper gives recommendations for the direction of future waterfront development strategies. Conclusions promote the accommodation of more inclusive, socially responsible, culturally relevant, innovative, entrepreneurial and integrated regeneration objectives to ensure the future success of waterfront projects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Urban rivers in different countries, especially in developing countries, that used to play a prominent role in the lives of city residents during their glorious period have currently undergone deteriorating conditions due to various management, climate, and other reasons. However, some of these rivers can be regenerated and returned to the natural urban ecosystem. To this end, the present study aimed to shed light on the mechanism of regenerating the Abbas Abad River in Hamadan through the exploration of the lived experiences of residents. Thus, following a phenomenological design and the data from unstructured interviews with the residents, this study focused on explaining the regeneration of the river and its waterfront. The results of the data analysis highlighted three different periods: the life-giving function of the river, the deterioration of the river, and people's reconciliation with nature through the restoration of the river. Moreover, an exploration of lived experiences of the residents revealed that the river can be regenerated in 5 phases: "Physical organization", "dispositioning ownerships", "culture building, liberation, and identification of the regeneration area", "project proposal, and "project implementation and control". • An understanding of the history of natural ecosystems in cities helps their effective regeneration. • The neglect of urban management of natural ecosystems can cause the gradual death of these natural elements. • Analyzing people's lived experiences can be a good guide for formulating the mechanism of waterfront restoration projects. • The history of natural ecosystems in developing countries can involve three periods of glory, decline, and regeneration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper's focus is the regeneration of the urban waterfront promenade, strengthening its role in the resolution of specific seaside cities' spatial and economic problematic. It is a descriptive and analytical study of the winner proposal for Vlora waterfront promenade, which aims to turn the city into a significant urban coastal area for regional recreation and tourism. It also strives to rely on a theoretical background on waterfront space redesigning, based on the European experiences in urban waterfront redevelopment and on the potential of their regeneration, as an instrument of economic development. It concludes that since the waterfront redevelopment scheme is a complex, multi-actor and long-term program that has to cope with changing economic and political conditions, the planners should be very cautious of adopting elements of successful international examples, for reasons of uniqueness of local environmental, physical, economic and political preconditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The transformation of coastal or river waterfronts is among the most interesting phenomena in urban redevelopment because the coastal belt is rightly considered among the exceptional locations. When examining waterfronts, the coastal area in the northeast part of the old town of Koper is a very interesting laboratory because it was intensely transformed in a short timeframe. The urban and architectural development of the city of Koper and its urban areas experienced important turning points in the twentieth century, to which political and social events in the northern Adriatic significantly contributed. The key spatial changes in Koper included the construction of the newest northern Adriatic port, the Port of Koper, and projects such as construction of high-rise buildings by architect Edo Mihevc in the northern part of the old city core of Koper and in the Belvedere area. After 2000, new spatial solutions for further developing Slovenia's only port and three adjacent squares (Vergerio Square, Museum Square, and Nazor Square) on the northern side of the former island are being sought through public procurement or public urban and architectural competitions. Although the port is slowly implementing planned steps from the 2011 National Spatial Plan (e.g., dredging the first basin), residents feel that some of the selected squares still remain the most degraded areas of the city. The research describes some historical facts important for understanding the transformation of the location studied, the development of the construction of the Port of Koper, and some arrangements on the north side of the historic core. The analytical assessment of the first plans for a port at Koper and the contemporary comprehensive urban design for the spatial layout of the Port of Koper highlights key elements of spatial transformations of the port area (the waterfront, watercourses, traffic networks, urban structure, and specific territorial features) and individual arrangements in the northern part of the city's historic core. Those spatial elements of the port of Koper, for which there have been various proposals since the construction of the port began, are defined in the discussion. The conclusion offers concrete and general considerations relevant to understanding and evaluating current spatial proposals, and also relevant for designing future spatial proposals not only for Koper's coastal waterfront area but also for other waterfront and port areas. Interconnected areas - or the borders between the city and the port, or the port and the surrounding landscape - are becoming a key point in implementing modern town-planning concepts, thereby increasing the importance of their professional and innovative meaning. Ports fear that urban solutions will affect and restrict the main port activity. Similarly, cities fear that the expansion of the port traffic will generate more noise and negative environmental impacts in city areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The gradual relocation of industry and other related activities out of the core areas of cities often results in voids in the urban structure—spaces that are ‘left over’. These places—in transition between their past and future functions—are landscapes with no formal spatial arrangement or current use. Their state of limbo often allows for a variety of informal and spontaneous uses that may enrich the urban structure, albeit temporarily, with their diversity. However, they are usually shown as blank areas on city planning maps with a status of awaiting some future use: thus the space is considered to be empty. As a case study, the temporary in-between status of a disused and abandoned fishing harbour in Tallinn, Estonia, is documented, in order to present and discuss ways of analysing both positive and negative aspects of dereliction in a post-Soviet context. This blankness, the paper concludes, is an opportunity and a quality, not always a vice but in some cases a virtue and that the rich content of derelict places is worthy of consideration in city planning. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The Port Adelaide inner harbour, like other waterfront developments nationally and internationally, reflects the bringing together of a range of elements—ideas, policies, people, capital and strategies—in reconfiguring the built form. This preliminary study investigates the utility of applying a concept of critical urban assemblage to understand the planning, processes and delivery of this Australian waterfront redevelopment. The aim is to go beyond situating the redevelopment as a ‘model’ of success or failure, or the sole result of a neo-liberalized urban regeneration paradigm. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The aim of this paper is to assess the strength and weakness factors of post-industrial cities located in the Gulf of Naples in order to propose the most effective regeneration strategies towards a sustainable development of the urban coastline. This paper focuses on the city of Torre Annunziata and in particular on its industrial port area and waterfront. The analysis suggests that a sustainable development would be possible through the redesign and new functionalization of the waterfront and port area, improving resilience and creativity in order to integrate economic growth, ecological preservation and social opportunities. Thus, this paper is a proposal for a participative approach to the regeneration of the urban waterfront, enhancing the creative potential of the city and developing a new image for the waterfront that could become the strategic vision for a future economic, environmental and cultural development. A comparison between the waterfronts of Torre Annunziata and La Spezia has been carried out in order to assess what are the most effective choices for the future of Torre Annunziata, followed by an applicative process based on interviews. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Flagships, also referred to as megaprojects, and frequently involving waterfront regeneration, are a common form of urban redevelopment. Their goals are often aimed at an outside audience of tourists, investors and potential (high income) residents. While the target may be external, the ways in which these spaces are perceived by the local population is an important, and, as yet, under-researched, area. Many scholars suggest that flagships have a negative impact on cities, but their research stops short of asking local residents what they think themselves. This paper attempts to redress this imbalance in the literature by analysing a survey of residents' perceptions towards the Kop van Zuid in Rotterdam, a large waterfront regeneration project. The survey included residents in different neighbourhoods across the city to determine the roles played by spatial proximity, and socio-economic and demographic variables. Responses were more positive than expected, particularly among poorer residents in the vicinity of the flagship. We argue this has to do with the quality of life enhancements which the Kop van Zuid has brought. This can offer some insightful lessons when regenerating brownfield sites in the future. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Waterfront management constitutes one of the most challenging research areas for spatial planning and a key driver for urban development. As such, it has unceasingly being placed at the epicenter of the scientific and policy-making debate over time. In a rapidly changing decision environment, marked by recession, climate change, urbanization, blue growth, etc., the interest in coastal zone management and related planning endeavours is constantly escalating. Raising is also the concern for serving sustainability and resilience objectives of urban coastal fronts, further amplified in case of coastal metropolitan regions, i.e. areas that are subject to intense urban sprawl pressures and intensification of land/sea uses. In such regions, population over-concentration and deployment of hyper-local infrastructures/functions leads to the formation of strong developmental enclaves along the coastline, with multiple consequences on the marine and coastal ecosystems, the local identity as well as the territorial and social cohesion of the coastal communities. Managing the fragile and highly vulnerable urban coastal zones is currently dealt with the Integrated Coastal Zone Management (ICZM). A key issue in this respect lies on the understanding of the causes behind coastal urbanization and their use in relevant planning endeavours, ending up with policy actions and institutional regulatory mechanisms. Having as a pilot field of research one of the most intriguing parts of the Athens' southern waterfront (Faliro-Elliniko), the focus of this work is on: identifying the main drivers behind its structure/dynamics and degree of integration into the city; studying and evaluating its spatio-functional transformations; and illuminating the typological characteristics of the coastal zone that affect its vulnerability and spatial continuity. The ultimate goal is to highlight the necessity for a multi-dimensional and spatio-temporal approach for assessing coastal urban sprawl and monitoring its effects on the natural and manmade environment. [Display omitted] [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]