Introduction.Waterfront Challenges for the Contemporary City

The introduction stresses conceptual development on research results stressing within the book and develops detailed cases of interest in response to climate change, to promote sustainable development in a variety of ways. It also seeks to include some key waterfront topics in linking new spatial patterns to social dynamics. It also presents the structure of the book, sommarising Part 1 and Part 2 and developing all abstracts of every single chapter.