Key Learning points from the WCP

Successful regeneration requires a range of key issues to be addressed more or less simultaneously. The Waterfront Communities Project has agreed a number of Cross-cutting recommendations for waterfront regeneration in Europe. In summary, these are:

  • The quality of urban vision influences all aspects of waterfront regeneration
  • Moving from vision to sophisticated strategy essential
  • Leadership in public planning - achieving social benefit and private profit a key challenge
  • Leadership and organisational innovation drive forward waterfront vision and strategy
  • Achieving social integration through participation benefits all aspects of regeneration
  • Public investment in transport and infrastructure a key to unlocking economic and social benefit
  • Land ownership can be a critical factor
  • Urban design needs to achieve a 'paradigm of urban complexity'
  • Learning to learn through action research approaches

The links on the right are the theme recommendations.