Transforming Urban Waterfronts: Fixity and Flow Book

Introduction: Fixity and Flow of Urban Waterfront Change Gene Desfor and Jennefer Laidley Section I: The Waterfront and the City 1. Maritime Ports and the Politics of Reconnection Peter V. Hall and Anthony Clark 2. Fragmentation on the Waterfront: Coastal Squatting Settlements and Urban Renewal Projects in the Caribbean Mélanie Gidel 3. Dockland Regeneration, Community, and Social Organization in Dublin Astrid Wonneberger 4. Waterfront Revitalizations: From a Local to a Regional Perspective in London, Barcelona, Rotterdam, and Hamburg Dirk Schubert Section II: Global and Local Dynamics on the Waterfront 5. Urban Waterfront Transformation as a Politics of Mobility: Lessons from Seattle’s Alaskan Way Viaduct Debate Kevin Ramsey 6. London Docklands Revisited: The Dynamics of Waterfront Development Sue Brownill 7. San Francisco’s Waterfront in the Age of Neoliberal Urbanism Jasper Rubin 8. New York City’s Waterfronts as Strategic Sites for Analyzing Neoliberalism and its Contestations Susanna Schaller and Johannes Novy Section III: Naturalizing Development and Developing Nature 9. Deep Water and Good Land: Socio-Nature and Toronto’s Changing Industrial Waterfront Gene Desfor 10. Visibility and Contamination on the Buenos Aires Waterfront: Under the Bridges of Puerto Madero and La Boca Stephanie C. Kane Section IV: New Practices of Property-Led Development 11. The German ‘City Beach’ as a New Approach to Waterfront Development Quentin Stevens 12. Exploring Innovative Instruments for Socially Sustainable Waterfront Regeneration in Antwerp and Rotterdam Tuna Ta?an-Kok and Yesim Sungu-Eryilmaz 13. Flows of Capital and Fixity of Bricks in the Built Environment of Boston: Property-Led Development in Urban Planning? Susanne Heeg. Conclusion: Patterns of Persistence: Trajectories of Change Quentin Stevens