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The Fluid City Paradigm

Waterfront Regeneration as an Urban Renewal Strategy

herausgegeben von: Maurizio Carta, Daniele Ronsivalle

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buchreihe : UNIPA Springer Series

Enthalten in: Springer Professional "Wirtschaft+Technik" , Springer Professional "Technik" , Springer Professional "Wirtschaft"

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This book presents a new paradigm of knowledge and action with respect to urban waterfronts and the “fluid city paradigm,” explaining its methodological framework and describing an integrated and creative planning approach in which waterfront regeneration is pursued as a key urban-renewal strategy. It focuses especially on the WATERFRONT project (“Water And Territorial policiEs for integRation oF multisectoRial develOpmeNT”), which was funded jointly by Italy and Malta with the goal of developing common guidelines, strategies, and operational tools for the planning of coastal areas, based on cross-border exchange of experiences. In the described approach, the waterfront is recognized as having a broad identity, acknowledging the complexity of the relationship between seaport and town and taking into account the physical and environmental components of human settlement, infrastructure, and productive and recreational activities. It highlights details of the process of renewal in the port city of Trapani, with discussion of the implemented actions, plans, and programs. The book also examines the practices adopted to transform city–port relationships across Europe in pursuit of innovative and sustainable development.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter

The Fluid City Paradigm: A Deeper Innovation

Abstract

The Waterfront regeneration needs to be upgraded by a paradigm shift able to produce a deeper innovation of visions, methods and tools. The chapter, starting from the creative city paradigm, and through new points of view about port cities and seaside contexts, proposes new ways to apply the urban regeneration and renewal of disused areas in harbour contexts. The principles of the fluid city paradigm are declined in a “Manifesto” that explains how coastal urban components can contribute to a new fluidity and porosity of cities.

Maurizio Carta

Waterfronts and Tourism

Abstract

Mediterranean waterfronts owe their origins to trade and industrial activity and are often associated with maritime transport. Due to the resultant activity, such waterfronts evolved into major maritime cities and examples include Marseille, Barcelona and Valletta amongst others. In recent decades such cities experienced decline and then revival. Moreover a number of Mediterranean city-ports previously used for industrial purposes, have nowadays been transformed into major tourism attractions. This chapter is a brief overview of the main attributes of waterfronts and the role they play in tourism activity, focusing in particular on Mediterranean waterfronts.

Nadia Theuma

The Waterfront Theorem: An Integrated and Creative Planning Approach

Abstract

The chapter defines how the urban regeneration process must be declined into several “sensitive” interfaces of waterfronts in future fluid cities. Knowledge, analysis, diagnosis and dissemination of the new idea of waterfront integrate together different points of views, building a complex framework for sustainable and creative management of urban coastal areas. At last the chapter provides a new general framework for integrating ICZM and BARE methodologies in order to define—and to plan—four waterfront relationships with urban context in a projectual and proactive horizon.

Maurizio Carta

Harbourscape: Between Specialization and Public Space

Abstract

Talking about urban waterfronts and port areas, landscape and public space are key notions in a contemporary debate about cities. The waterfront is a liminal urban area, an extraordinary gateway between artifice and nature, where the city traditionally represents itself on the edge between land and water. This chapter defines Naples like an harbourscape in which historical identity, urban functions and socio-economic relationship can produce a new landscape founded on the harbour-urban identity. The chapter at last defines five strategies to regenerate Naples city-port area in order to realise the new harbourscape.

Michelangelo Russo

Waterfront Projects in Italy

Abstract

The chapter describes in what way waterfront areas can represent strategic opportunities for the reorganisation of cities with important seaports. In particular, from the international experiences, and from recent Italian study cases, the author describes the design solutions for waterfront filtering line in Naples.

Rosario Pavia

From the Harbour to the City. The Process of Urban Renewal in Trapani

Abstract

The chapter describes the study case of Trapani historical waterfront, in particular the design solutions adopted for nautical sport events and linked to regional landscape quality. The Trapani fluidity is connected with an entrenched sea cultural and natural heritage. Actions, plans and programmes implemented for regeneration and development are based on cultural and natural heritage to be regulated, connected and transformed, in order to preserve the urban and regional identity.

Alessandra Badami

An Atlas of the Mediterranean Waterfronts: An Instrument for Knowledge and Direction

Abstract

In order to design the renewal for urban fluidity, the Atlas for Mediterranean Waterfronts is not only an instrument for knowledge, but it is the tool in which we can analyse the contemporary relation between nature and culture. The chapter explains the duality-based atlas that mirrors the condition in city-port urban management and it defines the structure of the Atlas that is founded on urban clusters identities as research field.

Daniele Ronsivalle

Waterfront and Transformation in Contexts of Conflict

Abstract

This chapter defines in what way the seaside and the waterfront can be place of conflicts among infrastructures, production, unplanned urbanisation, bathing tourism and many other activities. The last section of the chapter describes synthetically the study case of Saint-Nazare Submarine base and the terms of regeneration of a typically place of conflict, like a military area connected with the waterfront.

Barbara Lino

Definition of the Precincts and Instruments for Shared and Harmonised Planning of Waterfront Areas

Abstract

This chapter defines the status of the art for laws and regulative instruments for the fluid city paradigm applications and it suggests three models for waterfront governance. Into the chapter, a little section in order to explain the international framework for seaside and port management in EU context.

Daniele Gagliano

The Fluid City Experience: An Update

Abstract

This chapter describes the actual status of thirteen European cities that become fluid cities through their strategies for urban regeneration. These cities are divided into three groups: the large port-cities, the medium rank “city-port” cities, the riverfront cities. For every city, we define the status of urban environment and population, the trend for port and airport traffic and the strategies for urban regeneration.

Daniele Ronsivalle

Titel: The Fluid City Paradigm
herausgegeben von: Maurizio Carta
Daniele Ronsivalle
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-28004-2
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-28003-5
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28004-2