09/18/2025: LIVE INTERACTIVE WEBINAR, Reviving Waterfronts Through Design, Thursday, September 18, 2025, 11am-1pm Eastern

$198.00

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Waterfronts are shedding their traditional industrial and trade characteristics and are now experiencing a redevelopment into alluring places for living and recreation. This two-hour webinar focuses on the transformation of waterfronts into environmentally protective, historically significant, and financially important areas within a community. This webinar introduces established waterfront specific urban planning and design criteria that guides the physical development between the water and the existing city fabric. These urban planning and design criteria are explored through the discussion of various successful urban waterfront redevelopments throughout the United States.

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Objectives

Course Objectives

Evaluate the evolving role of urban waterfronts in shaping the economic, social, and spatial development of cities, and recognize how historical legacies influence current redevelopment priorities, public access, and community identity.
Identify and apply urban planning and design strategies specific to waterfront contexts, including climate-adaptive design, flood resilience, connectivity, land use transitions, and regulatory overlays, while ensuring alignment with public health, safety, and welfare goals.
Examine the environmental, public health, economic, and social benefits associated with successful waterfront transformations, including improved air and water quality, equitable access to green space, active transportation networks, climate mitigation, and long-term fiscal sustainability.
Critically evaluate key case studies from urban waterfront redevelopments across the United States, identifying both successful practices and common challenges related to stakeholder engagement, infrastructure adaptation, equity, environmental remediation, and long-term stewardship.