Chose a city with a newly revitalized waterfront – except Dumbo (Brooklyn) **See List below.
Answer the following questions with text, images and diagrams.
Why did you chose this city?
What was the waterfront used from in the history?
What caused the change at the waterfront?
What are the new uses?
What are the transportation systems and the access to the waterfront?
Is there boat or water access?
How does the waterfront attract people?
What are the amenities?
What type of retail/commercial/residential are at the waterfront?
What type of public spaces are there?
Who uses these spaces?
What is successful about this waterfront development?
What is not successful about this waterfront?
Provide a series of Diagrams:
- Pedestrian movement
- Figure – Ground
- Connections to surrounding neighborhood
- Uses – public vs private
- Uses – Commercial, Retail, Industrial, residential
List of Cities:
- Oslo, Norway (Aker Brygge)
- Kyoto, Japan (Kiya-Machi River Walk)
- Venice, Italy
- San Sebastian, Spain
- Sydney, Australia
- New Orleans, Louisiana (Artillery Park)
- San Antonio, Texas (Riverwalk)
- London, UK (London Eye)
- Porto, Portugal (Ribeira District)
- Copenhagen, Denmark (Nyhavn +Kongens, NYT or V Square)
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Helsinki, Finland (Market Square)
- Baltimore, Maryland
- Chicago, Illinois (Navy Pier)
- San Fransisco, California (Fishermans Wharf)
- Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Melbourne, Australia (Docklands)
- Ghent, Belgium (Graslei)
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