Today there is great concern for environmental degradation that is being caused by the depletion of natural resources, pollution (air, ground and water), global warming , and general lack of concern for the earth`s natural ecosystem. The importance of the contribution made to unsustainable practices by development of building and the built environment is also often underestimated. Meanwhile, the rapid post industrial development of many of our world’s great cities, has been accompanied by the degradation of their rivers, harbors and bays. Changing economic patterns have made much of this waterfront area available for re-development. So even if waterfront rehabilitation is increasingly being employed in developed world cities, the environmental considerations are not always clear. This thesis examines urban waterfront rehabilitation as an environmental sustainable development. Sustainable Development is now commonly classified as having three main components; economic sustainability, environmental sustainability and social sustainability (equity). These following contents have focus on Environmental Sustainable aspects of Planning along Waterfronts, more particularly in the brown fields (built environment), and through the critical analyses and studying of some current good practices. Examples from around the world are investigated, evaluated and features are drawn together to find the definition into; What is an environmental sustainable redevelopment of waterfront? What are the underlying sustainable principles (planning, development & urban design? What are the strategies to achieve those principles? How are these principles and strategies through the mechanism of crucial contextual factors and variables being affected and how are resulted the outcomes? In order to answering these questions, the approach is; 1. Understanding the waterfront phenomena in relation with urban brown field development as well as environmental challenges, 2. Studying the environmental sustainable objectives in the city planning, 3. Critical analyzing of examples in different scales and from different part of the world (Europe, United states and Canada); The case studies have been examined through their histories, perceived challenges in the last decades, Re_ habitation process, the Priority settings, master plans, developments processes and managements, environmental strategies and outcomes in addition with the final result of their total planning process today. 4. By encompassing a variety of project approaches, it provides the principles and strategies guidelines, and emerging the guidelines by the comparison among the cases. 5. At the end the learned lessons are provided as the responses to the main questions of the whole process. Therefore, the objective of this thesis it to bring a concrete support for new dynamic thinking that can lead to development of a sustainable built environment with the good integration in to water, as the waterfront regeneration.
Oggi vi è una grande preoccupazione per il degrado ambientale che viene causata dal depauperamento delle risorse naturali, l'inquinamento dell’aria, della terra e dagli ambienti acquatici; a ciò si aggiunge il problema relato al riscaldamento globale e la generale mancanza di preoccupazione per l'ecosistema naturale della terra. E’ spesso sottostimanta anche l’importanza del contributo negativo di pratiche non sostenibili nello sviluppo delle costruzione e in generale dell’ambito costruttivo. Nel frattempo se da una parte il rapido sviluppo post-industriale di molte delle grandi città del mondo è stata accompagnato dalla degradazione dei loro fiumi, porti e baie dall’altra il cambiamento dei modelli economici ha reso possibile la riqualificazione di gran parte delle aree litorali. Tuttavia anche se la riabilitazione lungomare viene utilizzato sempre più nelle città del mondo sviluppato, i vantaggi ambientali non sono sempre chiari. Questa tesi prende in esame la riabilitazione delle aree ostrutti litorali urbane “urban waterfront” come strategia e pianificazione di rigenereazione ambientale sostenibile. Lo sviluppo sostenibile è ormai comunemente classificato secondo tre componenti principali: la sostenibilità economica, la sostenibilità ambientale e la sostenibilità sociale (equity). I contenuti presentati sono focalizzati sugli aspetti della sostenibilità ambientale della pianificazione nelle aree litorali urbane, in particolare nelle aree dismesse , attraverso l’analisi critica e lo studio di alcune buone pratiche correnti. L’insieme di casi di studio provenienti dalle diverse aree urbanizzate del mondo sono stati studiati e valtati insieme, per tovare la definizione comune di: § Che cos’è il risviluppo sostenibile ambientale dei litorali? § Quali sono i principi base della sostenibilità (pianificazione , sviluppo e design urbano)? § Quali sono le strategia per raggiungere questi principi? § Come questi principi e queste strategie sono stati influenzati attraverso il meccanismo dei fattori e delle variabili contestuali cruciali ? e come sono stati influenzati i risultati? Al fine di rispondere a queste domande l’approccio utilizzato è stato il seguente: 1. Comprendere il fenomeno waterfront in relazione con lo sviluppo delle aree urbane dismesse e delle sfide ambientali; 2. Studiare gli obiettivi di sostenibilità ambientale applicati nella pianificazione urbana; 3. Analisi critica dei casi di studio su scale differenti (storia, contesto, processi di urbanizzazione) e su differenti aree geografiche (Europa, Stati Uniti e Canada) 4. Attraverso la raccolta e classificazioni dei differenti approcci al fine di fornire una risposta al risviluppo ambientale sostenibile dei litorali, arrivare a fornire i principi guida e le stategie (comprese quelle emergenti ) dell’intero processo Pertanto attraverso il processo sopra descritto l’obiettivo della tesi è stato di portate un supporto concreto per un nuovo pensiero dinamico finalizzato allo sviluppo di un ambiente sostenibile, costruito attraverso la buona integrazione dell’acqua, come la rigenerazione del litorale.
A comparative studying of environmental sustainable planning of waterfront redevelopments
AGHABEGLOU, SHEYDA
2010/2011
Abstract
Today there is great concern for environmental degradation that is being caused by the depletion of natural resources, pollution (air, ground and water), global warming , and general lack of concern for the earth`s natural ecosystem. The importance of the contribution made to unsustainable practices by development of building and the built environment is also often underestimated. Meanwhile, the rapid post industrial development of many of our world’s great cities, has been accompanied by the degradation of their rivers, harbors and bays. Changing economic patterns have made much of this waterfront area available for re-development. So even if waterfront rehabilitation is increasingly being employed in developed world cities, the environmental considerations are not always clear. This thesis examines urban waterfront rehabilitation as an environmental sustainable development. Sustainable Development is now commonly classified as having three main components; economic sustainability, environmental sustainability and social sustainability (equity). These following contents have focus on Environmental Sustainable aspects of Planning along Waterfronts, more particularly in the brown fields (built environment), and through the critical analyses and studying of some current good practices. Examples from around the world are investigated, evaluated and features are drawn together to find the definition into; What is an environmental sustainable redevelopment of waterfront? What are the underlying sustainable principles (planning, development & urban design? What are the strategies to achieve those principles? How are these principles and strategies through the mechanism of crucial contextual factors and variables being affected and how are resulted the outcomes? In order to answering these questions, the approach is; 1. Understanding the waterfront phenomena in relation with urban brown field development as well as environmental challenges, 2. Studying the environmental sustainable objectives in the city planning, 3. Critical analyzing of examples in different scales and from different part of the world (Europe, United states and Canada); The case studies have been examined through their histories, perceived challenges in the last decades, Re_ habitation process, the Priority settings, master plans, developments processes and managements, environmental strategies and outcomes in addition with the final result of their total planning process today. 4. By encompassing a variety of project approaches, it provides the principles and strategies guidelines, and emerging the guidelines by the comparison among the cases. 5. At the end the learned lessons are provided as the responses to the main questions of the whole process. Therefore, the objective of this thesis it to bring a concrete support for new dynamic thinking that can lead to development of a sustainable built environment with the good integration in to water, as the waterfront regeneration.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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