Transforming Urban Waterfronts : Fixity and Flow (hardcover)

In port cities around the world, waterfront development projects have been hailed both as spaces of promise and as crucial territorial wedges in twenty-first century competitive growth strategies. Frequently, these mega-projects have been intended to transform derelict docklands into communities of hope with sustainable urban economies―economies intended to both compete in and support globally-networked hierarchies of cities.