Riverfront Planning Initiatives in Upstate New York: The Cases of Kingston, Albany and Schenectady
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7275/fabos.658
Publication Date
2016
Abstract
Waterfront locations have traditionally been perceived as possessing special qualities from real estate, urbanity and tourism perspectives. Many cities have developed on waterfronts and some of their most notable urban fabrics face waterbodies – rivers, canals, creeks, lakes or seas. Some small and mediumsized riverfront cities have been able to conserve or adapt their industrial era cultural heritage to new uses. In many cases, tourism has taken advantage of those locations for recreation, sports and community-oriented open-air events on the land-water interface (Bray, 1993; Kostopoulou, 2013). This paper provides a brief analysis of how three cities in upstate New York – Kingston, Albany and Schenectady – have attempted to promote more active uses of their riverfronts.
Recommended Citation
Balsas, Carlos
(2016)
"Riverfront Planning Initiatives in Upstate New York: The Cases of Kingston, Albany and Schenectady,"
Proceedings of the Fábos Conference on Landscape and Greenway Planning: Vol. 5:
Iss.
2, Article 56.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7275/fabos.658
Available at:
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/fabos/vol5/iss2/56