The collection engages with major theoretical debates and empirical findings on how waterfronts transform and have been transformed in port-cities in North and South America, Europe, and the Caribbean. It brings together authors from a broad range of disciplinary backgrounds to tackle vital questions of waterfront development.

Introduction: Fixity and Flow of Urban Waterfront Change Section 1: The Waterfront and the City 1. Maritime Ports and the Politics of Reconnection 2. Fragmentation on the Waterfront: Coastal Squatting Settlements and Urban Renewal Projects in the Caribbean 3. Dockland Regeneration, Community, and Social Organization in Dublin 4. Waterfront Revitalizations: From a Local to a Regional Perspective in London, Barcelona, Rotterdam, and Hamburg Section 2: Global and Local Dynamics on the Waterfront 5. Urban Waterfront Transformation as a Politics of Mobility: Lessons from Seattle's Alaskan Way Viaduct Debate 6. London Docklands Revisited: The Dynamics of Waterfront Development 7. San Francisco's Waterfront in the Age of Neoliberal Urbanism 8. New York City's Waterfronts as Strategic Sites for Analyzing Neoliberalism and its Contestations Section 3: Naturalizing Development and Developing Nature 9. Deep Water and Good Land: Socio-Nature and Toronto's Changing Industrial Waterfront 10. Visibility and Contamination on the Buenos Aires Waterfront: Under the Bridges of Puerto Madero and La Boca Section 4: New Practices of Property-Led Development 11. The German 'City Beach' as a New Approach to Waterfront Development 12. Exploring Innovative Instruments for Socially Sustainable Waterfront Regeneration in Antwerp and Rotterdam 13. Flows of Capital and Fixity of Bricks in the Built Environment of Boston: Property-Led Development in Urban Planning? Conclusion: Patterns of Persistence: Trajectories of Change