URBAN WATERFRONT

REGENERATION
Rediscovery of urban waterfront
• New laws were enacted to govern the structural changes
• New planning methods were developed
 WATERFRONT
DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS
WATERFRONT REVITALIZATION
WATERFRONT REHABILITATION
WATERFRONT REDEVELOPMENT
WATERFRONT REGENERATION
WATERFRONT REGENERATION
• Emerged from North America (mid 1960s)
• Rehabilitation of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor

1912
WATERFRONT REGENERATION
• Emerged from North America (mid 1960s)
• Rehabilitation of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor

1949
WATERFRONT REGENERATION
• Emerged from North America (mid 1960s)
• Rehabilitation of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor

1957
WATERFRONT REGENERATION
• Emerged from North America (mid 1960s)
• Rehabilitation of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor

1960s
WATERFRONT REGENERATION
• Emerged from North America (mid 1960s)
• Rehabilitation of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor

1970s
WATERFRONT REGENERATION
• Emerged from North America (mid 1960s)
• Rehabilitation of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor
WATERFRONT REGENERATION
• Emerged from North America (mid 1960s)
• Rehabilitation of Baltimore’s Inner Harbor
BALTIMORE’S SYNDROME
FACTORS:
• Changing demography
• Availability of cheap, residential property
• Increasing heritage awareness
• Increasing quality of life awareness
• The desire to live closer to work
• The increasing importance of urban tourism
-Turnbridge
FACTORS:
• The increasing amount of leisure time and the need for more recreational
area
• The need to conserve historical and architectural heritage

-Jones
FACTORS:
• The economic transition from industrial to post-industrial service base
• The high concentration of population at waterside
Quincy Market, Boston
The Pierhead Building
San Diego’s Waterfront Village
Ghirardelli Square, San Francisco
Standard catalyst of inner area regeneration for any city or town in the mid 1980-
1990s
DIFFERENT TYPOLOGIES OF
URBAN WATERFRONT
REGENERATION
 1. New Urban Expansion

Hafencity, Hamburg, Germany

Bay of Rummelsburg, Berlin
2. Waterfronts and Great Events
3. New Urban Waterfront Itineraries
4. Safe Harbor
5. Reuse of Port Areas
6. Flood Defence
7. Urban Beaches