Book Description
Focusing on large-scale waterfront renewal, the most dynamic area of urban design today, this cutting edge review of award-winning waterfront designs explores the successful redevelopment of oceanfront, lakefront, and riverfront in urban centers around the world. Showcasing more than 100 international projects in maginificent full color, this beautifully produced design survey presents a rich and diverse portfolio of redevelopment work, including museums, restaurants, historic monuments, parks, housing, government facilities, trade centers, ship terminals, and retail stores. An ideal companion to the authors' highly praised Waterfronts: Cities Reclaim Their Edge, the book is an invaluable source of ideas, inspiration, and practical design guidance.

Customer Reviews
It's a beautiful and helpful book for architects, August 20, 1997
Reviewer: A reader
I like this book because it show the poetic and the force on the meet between the land and the water

For urban designers it show that to work in the situation and context is to work in the most important urban's place because it there is public space

• Remaking the Urban Waterfront
  by Urban Land Institute [ISBN: 087420903X]
  Waterfronts provide a natural opportunity to make a memorable urban place, yet many of them remain obsolete or underused. Remaking the Urban Waterfront, written by expert architects and planners, explains the importance of and challenges inherent in transforming waterfronts, the key design issues, zoning and land use regulations, environmental obstacles, development incentives, and how the public and private sectors must work together to create spectacular new waterfronts.
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• Waterfronts in Post-Industrial Cities
  by R. MARSHALL [ISBN: 0415255163]
  Provide a structure for considering particular aspects of waterfront redevelopment-connection to the waterfront, remaking the city image on the waterfront, port and city relations, and the new waterfronts in historic cities.
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• The Urban Design Handbook: Techniques and Working Methods
  by Ray Gindroz, Karen Levine, Urban Design Associates [ISBN: 0393731065]
  From an important urban design and architecture firm comes this manual for urban designers, based on the firm's in-house practice and procedures. Covering the process from basic principles to developed design, this invaluable book can serve as an introductory course in urbanism as well as an operations handbook for architects, planners, developers, and public officials.
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• Beyond the Edge: New York's New Waterfront
  by Raymond W. Gastil [ISBN: 1568983271]
  Gastil offers examples from other cities and proposes a number of ingenious projects for the continued revitalization of Manhattan's edges, where the island "opens up beyond the topography of everyday life.
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• The New York Waterfront: Evolution and Building Culture of the Port and Harbor
  by Kevin Bone (Editor), Mary Beth Betts, Eugenia Bone, Gina Pollara, Donald Squires... [ISBN: 1885254547]
  Historians, students, architects, and teachers take a look at where the port and harbor have been and speculate about their future. The six essays in this book offer both a historical context and a commentary on solutions, both hypothetical and those in-progress.
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