On the Waterfront: The Historic Waterfront Precinct, Dunedin, New Zealand

Urban Geography: Waterfront Development

Glossary brownfield A piece of previously used land that requires some remediation of contaminants, pollutants, debris or hazardous substances in order for it to be reused and redeveloped. containerization A shipping method which uses standardized containers to store and transport goods and materials. gentrification A complex process whereby a group of middle class people move into a previously...

Dunedin New Zealand

Geographic information systems are an important tool for the field of geocomputing. Akey component of every system is the dataÑspatial data has traditionally been labour-intensive to collect, and hence expensive. This paper establishes a new method ofacquiring spatial data from motion video. The proposed method is based upon theprinciples of photogrammetry, but allows positi...

Economic Impact of Working Waterfront – Hampton, Virginia

Cfd Simulation of Micro-climate in Waterfront

As an important influence factor of unban climate, unban water bodies take positive effect on the microclimate of surrounding area in summer. This paper firstly evaluated performances of five different models comparing with experimental results of windtunnel to find out which is most suitable for thermal prediction of micro-climate. Then, SKE model was selected to simulate four planning cases c...

A Descriptive Preference Analysis on Waterfront Parks Neighboring Lake Shihwa

As the ecology of Lake Shihwa has been restored significantly nowadays, the urban development is in progress around Lake Shihwa areas. Each development project includes a plan on utilizing waterfront areas, but there exist a difference on waterfront design criteria between experts and users. Therefore, it is significant to analyze preferences in design elements of existing waterfront parks arou...