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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"waterfront development"”.
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The Waterfront Development Community-Based Human-Centric Design in Ward 7 of Washington, D.C.
For years, Ward 7 in Washington, DC, has been a neglected area cut off from the rest of the city. For decades, the Anacostia River has served as a dividing line between Wards 7 and 8 from the rest of Washington DC. However, the neighborhood has much more to offer than being characterized as a …
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Consumer behavior and commercial linkages in a waterfront development and the adjacent downtown establishments: Baltimore's Inner Harbor
… and the extent of linkages between the waterfront development and districts in downtown Baltimore. Generally, visitors were tourists and downtown workers, who purchased food and spent less than $10. Females outspent males, and tourists living outside the Baltimore area outspent Baltimore …
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Understanding the relationships between tourism, and heritage conservation at the Victoria & Alfred Waterfront
… a heritage site at the Victoria and Alfred (V&A) Waterfront, in order to understand how it is shaped by tourism and heritage imperatives and to discover how they interact against the backdrop of commercial waterfront development and the City of Cape Town's vision. Jetty 1 Museum holds immense …
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Shaping an inclusive waterfront : community engagement in the redevelopment of San Francisco's Pier 70
Community engagement in large-scale development projects is a critical step in the real estate development process, needed both to obtain official project approval and to gain feedback to create projects that better provide for and respond to the needs of the community. In San Francisco and other …
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The Point Re-visited: A Redevelopment Plan for the Point Road Precinct in Durban
… that challenges the current ‘status quo’ of waterfront development projects in South African port cities, by proposing a bold new redevelopment plan for the Point waterfront in Durban. The last two decades have experienced a growing number of South Africa’s port cities undertaking major …
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Inhabiting cycles of maritime obsolescence : redirecting the National Defense Reserve Fleet
… social utility through industrial ingenuity. Waterfront development must now be coupled with appropriate metrics of defense and redundancy, projecting a long term phasing for the future occupation of the post industrial estuary. This thesis proposes a strategic redevelopment of obsolete …
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The urban waterfront in flux : accommodating uncertainty in Brooklyn
Urban waterfronts are host to every shade of a city's development. Once pulsating with trade and production, the very reason for the city's existence, the mid 20th century brought jarring macroeconomic shifts and technological change that left this vibrant edge largely abandoned. Nothing remains …
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Phenomena and form at the water's edge : a scenario for Boston
… The Water's Edge: The In-Between Zone. The waterfront is the edge that separates land and water. Historically, cities around the world have increased their footprints by infilling the water for more land. In some cases, the water has disappeared at the end of the process. This one-sided …
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Questioning Commonplace Ecological Design: a study of waterfront design practices and the ecological well-being of development in the harbor of Oyster, Virginia
… Shore of Virginia is in contrast to normative development of waterfront sites. The hard edge of common practices of waterfront development stands in tension to the more natural evolving edge of many harbors.When creating a dialogue between land and water, the solution has always been to create …
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Problematising the public interest as a tool of neoliberal urban planning
… interest. In an era of neoliberal urbanism the waterfront has become a focal point of major planning intervention. This is regarded as being ‘in the public interest’ due to the ostensible benefits of waterfront redevelopment to a city and the multiple publics within it. An exemplar of this is in …
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Port of call or port of conflict: the evolution of the port of New York and New Jersey, port-city relationships, and the potential for land use conflicts on the Newark bay waterfront
… the commercial port operations and redeveloping waterfronts for non-industrial uses. Research about the historical evolution of the Port of New York and New Jersey centers exclusively on the waterfronts and facilities on the Hudson and East Rivers and Upper New York Bay. Sources of information …
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Urban Brownfield Integration – Site Planning and Design Implementation of the Baltimore Community Center
… 19th century, many cities were left with large, waterfront sites, often contaminated with chemicals and empty industrial buildings. These waterfront sites – designated "Urban Brownfields" – became important potential centerpieces to the revitalization of the cities where manufacturing facilities …
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Infrastructural Landscape: Strategies for Post-Industrial Reuse
This thesis examines the regional challenges facing the Great Lakes and proposes a series of simultaneous multiscalar strategies to address them. The proposal activates the potential, in the greater number and area, of small cities within the region to improve water quality and water consumption. …