Toward resilient public places on the waterfornt

Main Article Content

Anna Sessarego

Abstract

The contemporary city waterfront areas could gather a strategic and multifunctional role, as a public place to the people wellness, as well as a resilient management of floods caused by climate changes. The international scenario presents many re-appropriation processes of urban waterfront that have been realized by reconversion of decommissioned port areas: the New York waterfront plan has a great relevance, such as Brooklyn Bridge Park, which represents a paradigm of the new concept of urban public place.

The design of the park aims to face the urban situations in order to mitigate their conflicts as well to find a sustainable aesthetic where the process of re-appropriation and awareness of the relationship with water is intended as an element to carry again nature in the city. The park should be much more performing compared to those of the past, not anymore an aesthetical improvement or an escape from the context but an escape into the city, including in it the urban fragments whose surrounds it.

Downloads

Download data is not yet available.

Article Details

How to Cite
SessaregoA. (2017). Toward resilient public places on the waterfornt. UPLanD - Journal of Urban Planning, Landscape & Environmental Design, 2(3), 219-230. https://doi.org/10.6093/2531-9906/5416
Section
Articles

References

Bloomberg, M.R., The City of New York (2011) Vision 2020 New York City Comprehensive Waterfront Plan, www.nyc.gov/waterfront

Calcagno Maniglio, A. (1983) Architettura del Paesaggio Evoluzione storica, Calderini, Bologna

Dinkins, D. N. (1992) New York City Comprehensive Waterfront Plan – Reclaiming the City’s Edge, NYC DCP 92-27

Emoto, M., (2007) Il miracolo dell'acqua, Il Punto d'Incontro, Vicenza

Gwang-Won Kim, MS, Gwang-Woo Jeong, PhD, Tae-Hoon Kim, MS, Han-Su Baek, MS, Seok-Kyun Oh, PhD, Heoung-Keun Kang, MD, Sam-Gyu Lee, MD, Yoon Soo Kim, PhD, and Jin-Kyu Song, PhD, (2010), Functional Neuroanatomy Associated with Natural and Urban Scenic Views in the Human Brain: 3.0T Functional MR Imaging, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2930158/

Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Task Force (2013) Hurricane Sandy Rebuilding Strategy, stronger communities, a resilient region, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, FEMA.gov

Kuitert, W., (edited by), (2008), “Transforming with water” IFLA2008 Proceedings of the 45th World Congress of the International Federation of Landscape Architects, Blauwdruk and Techne, Wageningen, Nederlands

N.Y.C. Mayor’s Office of Recovery and Resiliency (2017) Preliminary Climate Resiliency Design Guidelines, http://www1.nyc.gov/site/orr/index.page

Nichols, W. J. (2014) Blue Mind: the surprising science that shows how being near, in, on, or under water can make you happie, helthier, more connected, and better at what you do, Little, Brown & Company, New York

Quirk, V. (2014) The BIG U: BIG’s New York City Vision for Rebuilt by Design, www.archdaily.com

Roach C. (2011) Reinventing Public Places in NYC: Brooklyn Bridge Park, https://dirt.asla.org/

Sessarego, A. (2014) “Le aree dismesse: da criticità ad opportunità per lo sviluppo del paesaggio urbano” in Balletti, F., Ghersi, A., Paesaggio Urbano tra residui e risorse, FrancoAngeli, Milano, pp. 79-84

Sessarego, A. (2016) “Verso uno spazio pubblico del waterfont: recenti realizzazioni di architettura del paesaggio” in A. Ghersi, A.Sessarego, LA CITTÀ E L’ACQUA Progetti per un nuovo paesaggio accogliente, AltraAlinea edizioni, Firenze 2016, pp. 22-39

Whinston Spirn, A., “Reading the waterlines”, in Kuitert, W. (edited by) (2008) Transforming with water IFLA2008 Proceedings of the 45th World Congress of the International Federation of Landscape Architects, Blauwdruk and Techne, Wageningen, Nederlands, pp.146-147