The waterfront communities project

The Waterfront Communities Project is a learning network of nine cities from around the North Sea, who are rediscovering their waterfronts and striving to reconnect their cities with the sea.

Each city has experimented with new ways of tackling a particular challenge of waterfront development such as integrating new and existing communities or transport links. These activities are organised around nine project themes allowing cities to consider a wider range of issues than would have been possible working alone.

The project provided a unique opportunity to test different approaches and methodologies in different national contexts but with a shared common resource - the North Sea.

At its final conference in March 2007, the project published its toolkit 'The Cool Sea' setting out cross cutting recommendations for waterfront regeneration in Europe and a database of good practice.