Reconciling the Vast Potential of the Waterfront: A Methodology for Coastal City Planning

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Reconciling the Vast Potential of the Waterfront: A Methodology for Coastal City Planning

Submitted to in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Architecture at the Wentworth Institute of Technology, April 2017

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title: Reconciling the Vast Potential of the Waterfront: A Methodology for Coastal City Planning

creator: Kyle A. Stroveglia

subject: Sea level, Environmental aspects; Flood damage prevention; Seaside architecture, Connecticut, Bridgeport, Designs and plans

publisher: Douglas D. Schumann Library and Learning Commons, Wentworth Institute of Technology

type: Thesis

format: .pdf

language: en

rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

description: The sea is a thing of beauty, but also a thing of destruction. With the rising sea levels due to climate change, coastal cities are realizing the importance of their waterfront that was once viewed as a dumping area for all the undesirable structures that the city placed on the edges away from downtown. The undesirable structures such as elevated highways, railways and other infrastructures like power plants have created poor edge conditions that appear impossible to change. They are uninviting and will need more than a few new buildings to effectively revitalize the area into a destination. Using Bridgeport Harbor, Connecticut as a testing site where a methodology can be applied, this investigation goes beyond Bridgeport to benefit other coastal cities with similar problems looking at a possible process for counteracting these issues of image. This thesis looks at creating a master plan as an end result of an unconventional process of form generation by designing a city through it skyline from the views of approach, while thinking about the ideas behind "aqua-tecture." This project uses the rising sea level as an opportunity to re-imagine our coastal areas. Thereby creating a place where the people and the infrastructure can embrace the water as part of the community reconciling the vast potential of the waterfront through new building and habitable methods of flood protection going beyond Coastal Resilience.

date: 2017

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