Industrial Canal Waterfronts
The generic term of ‘waterfront’ refers to different water bodies including seas, rivers, lakes and man-made ones, like canals. Moreover, it is concerned with the distinctive area where cities engage with their shorelines. If viewed in terms of spatial dialectic between land and water, the waterfront becomes an ‘in-between’ area. This research aims at investigating the relationship between architecture and water in forming this distinct ‘in-between area’.
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The focus is on those waterfronts characterized by dismissed industrial sites that are in a wait for transformation. Nowadays, the former wealth of these areas has turned in environmental degradation and toxicity; while water has become other than a dynamic force. The work combines mapping, building analysis, historical research, etc., while enhancing heritage values and investigating principles of urban sustainability.
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Part of this work has resulted in the book Industrial canal waterfronts in the Netherlands (Alinea, 2012). It is concerned with the transformation of the dismissed Dutch canal zones of Brabant, emphasizing their peculiarities and challenges.
The Province North-Brabant contributed in funding this research work. |
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