Waterfront Porch

Reclaiming Detroit's Industrial Waterfront as a Gathering Place for All

John H. Hartig (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

246 Seiten

2019
Greenstone Books (Verlag)
978-1-948314-02-2 (ISBN)

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Detroit was the epicenter of the fur trade era, an unparalleled leader of shipbuilding for one hundred years, the Silicon Valley of the industrial age, and the unquestioned leader of the arsenal of democracy. This unique history depicts Detroit as a city of innovation, resilience, and leadership in responding to change, and examines the current sustainability paradigm shift to which Detroit is responding, pivoting as the city has done in the past to redefine itself and lead the nation and world down a more sustainable path. This book details the building of a new waterfront porch alongside the Detroit River called the Detroit RiverWalk to help revitalize the city and region and promote sustainability practices. It is a story of one of the largest, by scale, urban waterfront redevelopment projects in the United States, and gives hope and proves that Detroit and its metropolitan region have a bright future.

John Hartig is an award-winning Great Lakes scientist. He was a 2017–18 Fulbright Scholar at Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Ontario, and currently serves as the Great Lakes Science-Policy Advisor of the International Association for Great Lakes Research. Hartig’s book Bringing Conservation to Cities: Lessons from Building the Detroit River International Wildlife Refuge won a gold medal from the Nonfiction Authors Association in the “Sustainable Living” category and a bronze medal from the Living Now Book Awards in the “Green Living” category.

Contents Foreword Acknowledgments Prologue Chapter 1. Detroit's History in Addressing Paradigm Shifts Chapter 2. Historical Changes in the Riverfront Chapter 3. Detroit River Revival Chapter 4. Forging the Detroit RiverWalk Chapter 5. Place-Making in the D Chapter 6. Greenways, Blueways, and Flyways Chapter 7. Economic Benefits Chapter 8. Why Care about the Revitalization of Detroit? Chapter 9. Lessons Learned and the Future Epilogue References Index

Erscheinungsdatum	05.04.2019
Reihe/Serie	Greenstone Books
Zusatzinfo	47
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Hydrologie / Ozeanografie
ISBN-10	1-948314-02-9 / 1948314029
ISBN-13	978-1-948314-02-2 / 9781948314022
Zustand	Neuware