TY - JOUR
T1 - Regent’s Canal Cityscape
T2 - From Hidden Waterway to Identifying Landmark
AU - Cabau, Beatriz
AU - Hernandez-Lamas, Patricia
AU - Woltjer, Johan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The London Journal Trust 2021.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Since the 1990s, important regeneration processes have been carried out around urban waterfronts and canals. Urban waterways have undergone a transformation from industrial canals and navigation corridors towards focal points for revitalization and urban development. But, what new roles and values do the canals have as part of sustainable cities development? This paper discusses the illustrative case of Regent’s Canal, London. The aim is to reveal the relationship and perception changes around Regent’s Canal environments through an evolution of its cityscape. Using historic evidence, policy documents and fieldwork, the paper identifies practices of regeneration of the canal’s banks in a reciprocal relationship between its capacity for place-making and the influence of the city on its transformation. Although Regent’s Canal constitutes a single, continuous element, it defines a changing and more diverse linear canalscape, as a result of the layering of various uses and values like an historical transport, environmental, scenic and recreational corridor.
AB - Since the 1990s, important regeneration processes have been carried out around urban waterfronts and canals. Urban waterways have undergone a transformation from industrial canals and navigation corridors towards focal points for revitalization and urban development. But, what new roles and values do the canals have as part of sustainable cities development? This paper discusses the illustrative case of Regent’s Canal, London. The aim is to reveal the relationship and perception changes around Regent’s Canal environments through an evolution of its cityscape. Using historic evidence, policy documents and fieldwork, the paper identifies practices of regeneration of the canal’s banks in a reciprocal relationship between its capacity for place-making and the influence of the city on its transformation. Although Regent’s Canal constitutes a single, continuous element, it defines a changing and more diverse linear canalscape, as a result of the layering of various uses and values like an historical transport, environmental, scenic and recreational corridor.
KW - Cityscape
KW - Heritage
KW - London
KW - Public Work
KW - Regent’s Canal
KW - Urban Regeneration
KW - Watercorridor
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85106242583&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/03058034.2021.1924960
DO - 10.1080/03058034.2021.1924960
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85106242583
SN - 0305-8034
VL - 47
SP - 282
EP - 307
JO - London Journal
JF - London Journal
IS - 3
ER -