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Balancing citizen values with expert opinion on best practices, the 2003 Penn's Landing Forums successfully engaged the public, design professionals, academics, and government officials in rethinking waterfront development in Philadelphia., The Delaware River is a significant natural resource that begins in upstate New York and empties into the Atlantic Ocean 360 miles to the south. Along its route, the river [...]

This paper presents an application of the maximum information entropy concept to formulate an equilibrium beach profile (EBP) associated with the long-term beach evolution. The model assumes the beach profile is monotonic from a maximum depth at anm offshore location to the runup limit or the berm level at the shoreline. The derived equilibrium beach profile has a logarithmic shape in terms of the cross-shore distance and can be either concave or convex depending on the profile shape parameters. If only the underwater portion of the profile is considered, the new EBP in nondimensional form matches the well known 2/3 power profile with the shape parameter S being between 1 and 1.5. The dimensional form of the profile is controlled by parameter S together with three other parameters which are the beach levels at the two boundaries of the profile and horizontal extent of the profile. These parameters are either directly measurable from the given initial profile and the calculated equilibrium profile or could be estimated using the available empirical formulae appropriate to the sediment properties, wave climate, and the temporal scale considered. As the profile shape comes directly from the use of the maximum information entropy principle without resorting to any assumptions regarding the cross-shore distributions of shear stresses, energy dissipations, or other physical processes the new EBP is applicable to both surfzone and nearshore zone as long as longshore bars are absent or unimportant. DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-950X(2008) 134:3(160) CE Database subject headings: Equilibrium; Beaches; Coastal management.

Of the 75 largest cities in the United States, only six are not located on a significant body of water. Consequently, the opportunities for new waterfront development and redevelopment nationwide […]

The Tower of London, the Palace of Westminster and sites along Liverpool's waterfront are not in danger from high-rise developments, UNESCO has found. The body's world heritage committee this week [...]

Celebrations were held last week to mark the 75th anniversary of the mass trespass on Kinder Scout in the Peak District, which pioneered the right of ordinary people to roam [...]

Spatial plans and dedicated management organisations are in prospect as part of efforts to put the use of our offshore waters on a much more organised footing, reports Catherine Early. [...]

Coastal towns all around the UK face a multitude of unique pressures and may need a wide range of special measures to help them get back on their feet, maintains [...]

Coastal erosion and flooding could threaten nearly three-quarters of National Trust coastline in Wales over the course of the next 100 years. Research released this week by the trust, which [...]

A planning brief proposing the creation of a park on the site of Whyte and Mackay's former whisky distillery at Leith was approved by Edinburgh City Council last week. Proposals [...]

One of Europe's largest waterfront developments, which centres on a Titanic visitor attraction in Belfast, has entered its second planning phase. Plans for homes, offices, hotels, restaurants, bars and a [...]

Plans to create a vibrant riverside community at Newport's Rodney Parade are moving forward after a preferred developer was chosen. The Welsh Assembly Government has selected George Wimpey South Wales [...]

A study into the potential of impounding the River Hull is to be explored by Halcrow to help drive waterfront development in the city. The firm will assess the viability [...]

Revised proposals for a pounds 175 million waterfront development in Huddersfield have been submitted following public and stakeholder consultation. Ramsden and Colne Developments aim to create a mixed-use scheme fronting [...]

Dean and Dyball has been chosen to develop the commercial quarter of the Woolston Riverside site in Southampton. The company, chosen by the South East England Development Agency, will deliver [...]

A key element of one of the UK's largest regeneration projects is to be redesigned following withering criticism from the Scottish Executive's planning standards adviser. Architecture and Design Scotland (ADS) [...]

A strategy to protect wharves on the River Thames from redevelopment was approved by the government this week. London mayor Ken Livingstone and the Port of London Authority (PLA) assessed [...]

The site of Liverpool's failed 'Cloud' could be used for a theatre, it emerged this week. The prominent site on the city's waterfront had been the focus of plans for [...]

Waterfront Edinburgh's plans for the housing-led regeneration of Granton Waterfront in the city have been granted permission by the Scottish Executive. Edinburgh City Council approved the outline and detailed plans [...]

Walsall Metropolitan Borough Council has shortlisted AMEC, Peel Holdings and Urban Splash in the final stretch of its selection of a preferred development partner for the second phase of the [...]