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Author: Gene Desfor (York University, Canada) ,
Jennefer Laidley (York University, Canada) ,
Quentin Stevens (RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia) ,
Dirk Schubert (HafenCity University, Germany)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.650kg
ISBN: 9780415811453
ISBN 10: 0415811457
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 05 September 2012
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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It is the broad scope of this text that is most appealing. It avoids any over simplification as it establishes the foundation for a comprehensive theory of urban waterfront development. While it makes no claim to offer such a theory, this text is a must read for anyone interested in moving beyond the platitudes of any single disciplinary perspective on waterfront change. -Robert G. Shibley, Professor of Architecture and Planning, and Director, The Urban Design Project, University at Buffalo, State University of New York Going beyond a 'successful story', typology of waterfront visions, and how to make and remake 'charming' urban waterfront, this book gives critical and reflective perspectives on urban waterfront change by looking at it as a dynamic process of 'Fixity' and 'Flow' across space and time. Based on empirical findings from international experience, the book covers various issues on history, economic, politics, culture and biophysical, with full of tensions and contradictions. -Kasama Polakit, Florida Atlantic University The book is very recommendable for its variety of new disciplinary approaches and for the widening of perspectives on problems and issues of waterfront transformations. -Hans Harms, HafenCity University, Hamburg, in Planning Perspectives, vol 27, no 1, p. 149-151
It is the broad scope of this text that is most appealing. It avoids any over simplification as it establishes the foundation for a comprehensive theory of urban waterfront development. While it makes no claim to offer such a theory, this text is a must read for anyone interested in moving beyond the platitudes of any single disciplinary perspective on waterfront change. -Robert G. Shibley, Professor of Architecture and Planning, and Director, The Urban Design Project, University at Buffalo, State University of New York Going beyond a 'successful story', typology of waterfront visions, and how to make and remake 'charming' urban waterfront, this book gives critical and reflective perspectives on urban waterfront change by looking at it as a dynamic process of 'Fixity' and 'Flow' across space and time. Based on empirical findings from international experience, the book covers various issues on history, economic, politics, culture and biophysical, with full of tensions and contradictions. -Kasama Polakit, Florida Atlantic University The book is very recommendable for its variety of new disciplinary approaches and for the widening of perspectives on problems and issues of waterfront transformations. -Hans Harms, HafenCity University, Hamburg, in Planning Perspectives, vol 27, no 1, p. 149-151
Author Information
Gene Desfor is Professor Emeritus and Senior Scholar at York University. Jennefer Laidley has been Project Manager for four years on the ‘Changing Urban Waterfronts’ research project, and has published articles on waterfront development in the academic journal Cities as well as in the periodicals Relay and Fuse. Quentin Stevens is Senior Lecturer in Planning and Urban Design at the Bartlett School of Planning, University College London. Dirk Schubert is Senior Lecturer in Urban Planning, Comparative Planning History, Housing and Urban Renewal at the HafenCity University.
