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Dr. Anne Taufen
University of Washington, Tacoma

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0 Community Planning and Development
0 Urban political ecology
0 Co-production, community based research
0 Governance and regional sustainability
0 port city infrastructure

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Hypothesis
Published: 03 January 2021 in Sustainability
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Urban waterfronts represent hybrid locations of ecological, economic, and social zones of transition and dispersal, spatially reified between land and water. Yet, through advancements in technology and the emergence of globally linked economies, the structure and function of urban waterfronts as economic and industrial drivers is becoming increasingly complex. As cities seek to redevelop their waterfronts in response to these changes, recent research and scholarship has focused on understanding the ecological, social, and economic benefits derived from urban waterfronts. This research reveals that their benefits are unevenly distributed among local and regional populations as sites of accumulated inequity and inaccessibility that are generative for only a relatively small percentage of the people living in a metropolitan area. Set within this paradoxical nexus, this paper frames a call to scientists, planners, academics, and waterfront activists to expand urban waterfront research from an indicator and benefits model to incorporate three conceptual tools for better understanding key dimensions of waterfront reclamation within the context of green infrastructure research: urban hybridity, functional performance and hierarchies of access. We explore these key dimensions in relation to the waterfront redevelopment of Tacoma, Washington, USA. By acknowledging the hybridity of urban waterfronts, we illustrate that their relative performance and accessibility require ongoing empirical study and practical intervention. Our theoretical explorations plot some of the potential areas of investigation for examining the structural and functional transitions of urban waterfronts as critical locations for green infrastructure development for the 21st century.

ACS Style

Anne Taufen; Ken Yocom. Transitions in Urban Waterfronts: Imagining, Contesting, and Sustaining the Aquatic/Terrestrial Interface. Sustainability 2021, 13, 366 .

AMA Style

Anne Taufen, Ken Yocom. Transitions in Urban Waterfronts: Imagining, Contesting, and Sustaining the Aquatic/Terrestrial Interface. Sustainability. 2021; 13 (1):366.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Anne Taufen; Ken Yocom. 2021. "Transitions in Urban Waterfronts: Imagining, Contesting, and Sustaining the Aquatic/Terrestrial Interface." Sustainability 13, no. 1: 366.

Research article
Published: 06 August 2020 in Journal of Planning Education and Research
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We look at a yearlong university–community partnership’s potential to create more equitable planning practices through an analysis of the sub-genres of student-generated planning reports. Using an actor–network approach to identify four different kinds of reports (manual, boundary object, framing, catalyst), we find that both the content of these reports and their translational work in existing practice-based networks can influence student learning and planning practices—what we term practice-based politicization—by defining, aligning, enrolling, and mobilizing. Ultimately, the relational context of these partnerships is essential to their effectiveness, suggesting that longer term engagements between university programs and their community partners are more likely to support mutual learning and deepen students’ pedagogical exposure to both an agonistic and collaborative approach to planning practice.

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Anne Taufen; Anneka Olson. Practice-Based Politicization: Planning Reports as Actants in a University–Community Partnership. Journal of Planning Education and Research 2020, 1 .

AMA Style

Anne Taufen, Anneka Olson. Practice-Based Politicization: Planning Reports as Actants in a University–Community Partnership. Journal of Planning Education and Research. 2020; ():1.

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Anne Taufen; Anneka Olson. 2020. "Practice-Based Politicization: Planning Reports as Actants in a University–Community Partnership." Journal of Planning Education and Research , no. : 1.

Journal article
Published: 20 October 2014 in Buildings
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Urban blue space is increasingly embraced by cities as a specific and valuable genre of public space, valued for its economic, symbolic and experiential place attributes and essential to sustainable urban development. This article takes up the concept of urban blue space from a design perspective, extending and exploring it through a critical social science lens. Using the reconfiguration and redesign of the central Seattle waterfront as a case example, the idea of “doing justice” is enlisted to examine not just the design opportunities and formal characteristics of the site, but also the patterns of privilege, access and regional socio-ecological equity that are raised through its redesign. After situating the extraordinary design opportunity presented by this iconic urban blue space, and the imperative to do justice to the waterfront’s physical situation, the article presents the site from four additional and discrete perspectives: economic justice, environmental justice, social justice and tribal justice. By thus foregrounding the urban political ecology of the waterfront, the article demonstrates that the most important challenge of the site’s redevelopment is not technological, financial or administrative, although these are real, and significant challenges, but rather, the need to construct a place that works to counter established patterns of local and regional injustice. In Seattle as in other coastal port cities, urban blue space is a shared public and environmental good, with unique and demanding governance responsibilities for its conceptualization and sustainable development.

ACS Style

Anne Taufen Wessells. Urban Blue Space and “The Project of the Century”: Doing Justice on the Seattle Waterfront and for Local Residents. Buildings 2014, 4, 764 -784.

AMA Style

Anne Taufen Wessells. Urban Blue Space and “The Project of the Century”: Doing Justice on the Seattle Waterfront and for Local Residents. Buildings. 2014; 4 (4):764-784.

Chicago/Turabian Style

Anne Taufen Wessells. 2014. "Urban Blue Space and “The Project of the Century”: Doing Justice on the Seattle Waterfront and for Local Residents." Buildings 4, no. 4: 764-784.