STATEMENT
June 21, 2010
Great urban waterfronts are truly hard to come by. The challenges are very often
related to the difficult task of generating success as a whole where waterfronts
not only becomes isolated areas on the edge of the city; but a natural and integrated
part of the city structure.
There are though promising elements in almost all of them only in need of good
strategies to become successful. The Waterfront (syn·op·sis) will focus on the
waterfront as the final edge of cities connected to the sea through stunning insight
in how to turn a waterfront around.
Project for Public Spaces have through their 30 years of Placemaking achieved
an international reputation as a unremitting advocate for creating outdoor spaces
in which people like to linger. Their approach towards the city edge adjacent
to the sea has resulted in two definitions.
The first, “Waterfront Cities” where the entire waterfront is considered in relation
to how well it connects by foot to the rest of the city sustaining a variety of
public activities in multiple areas. The second category, “Waterfront Places”
takes a look at the separate and individual destinations along the water. When
one experience these extraordinary public spaces it is easy to realize how much
more would be possible with a coordinated strategy to make the whole waterfront
a place for people and an entity defining the Waterfront City.
Do not miss out on the event of the year!
