Waterfront Communities
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Waterfront Communities

 

The INTERREG IIIB Priority 1 Measure 2 Project Waterfront Communities project aims to inspire, test and foster innovative solutions and sustainable spatial strategies for creating socially inclusive and economically productive high quality environments in restricted waterfront areas and their hinterlands.

 

Lead Partner:                      City of Edinburgh Council

                                               
Other Partners:                

  • Heriot Watt University
  • Gateshead Council
  • Kingston upon Hull City Council
  • Oslo (N)
  • Aalborg and Odense (D)
  • Gothenburg (S)
  • Schiedam (NL)
  • TU-Technologie (D)

For more information:

 

City of Edinburgh Council
1 Cockburn Street
Edinburgh
EH1 1ZH
United Kingdom
Sara Thiam
sara.thiam@edinburgh.gov.uk
Tel: +44 131 469 3562

 

Project website


 

The Waterfront Communities project aims to

  • bring together a network of city partners from the North Sea Region, other stakeholders including port authorities, voluntary agencies, private sector interests, the local communities who live in these areas, and experienced research expertise to foster and monitor innovative approaches to the sustainable regeneration of waterfront neighbourhoods and their hinterlands, with the aim of developing positive steps that could re-establish the relationship between water and city and reconnect spaces and communities;
  • develop an integrated framework for understanding the key principles of sustainable urban development in waterfront areas;
  • test a range of good practice techniques in sustainable waterfront regeneration;
  • synthesise the lessons learned into a single user-friendly toolkit which will summarise best practice in waterfront redevelopment.

The cross-sectoral target audience for the toolkit comprises government officers and decision-makers, port managers, housing and transport providers, voluntary and citizens organisations, and design professionals concerned with the sustainable development of cities, particularly in the North Sea Region but also elsewhere in Europe.

It is anticipated that the outcomes of this project will contribute to economic and social cohesion and the balanced and sustainable development not only of the nine participating cities but throughout the North Sea Region.

WCP_leaflet_june_2004.pdf


Duration of the project: 01/01/2004 - 12/31/2006