[CPEO-BIF] "Rediscovering urban waterfronts"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Rediscovering urban waterfronts through brownfields
The urban ecology approach is helping planners reconnect the public to 
the waterfront.

By NEWTON BREITER/Aecom
Sseattle Daily Journal of Commerce (WA)
September 2, 2010



Industry once claimed the waterfront of most cities. Refineries, rail 
yards and manufacturing facilities that depended on proximity to water 
transportation were built on the foreground of the cityscape. This 
remnant of industrialization physically and visually disconnects people 
from the unique places that define waterfront cities.

Now these once degraded landscapes are being reclaimed. An approach 
called urban ecology, based on landscape and ecological systems, is 
helping planners to reconnect the public to the waterfront.

Increasingly, urban waterfronts are being designed in balance with 
natural processes to create vibrant communities that function 
sustainably while supporting the remaining uses of working waterfronts.


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For the entire column, see
http://www.djc.com/news/en/12021312.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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