Waterfront Regeneration
This Knowledge Exchange programme will bring together practitioners, policy makers and academics involved with the regeneration processes in three major waterfront developments in Scotland: Dundee, Edinburgh and the Clyde. These three developments together account for a substantial part of overall urban regeneration activity currently under way in Scotland, and have the potential to make a huge impact on Scotland’s future economic and social development. These three initiatives are evolving in parallel, developing their own independent approaches to city-building and to shaping the new places where people will live and work, with different degrees of success in different areas of development.
Through generating the opportunity for sharing experiences on current and recent regeneration activities, the programme aims to engage participants in continuing networking and cross-collaboration in order to identify the different approaches, outcomes and, in particular, individual successes. The programme aims to contribute to the future development of the waterfront areas directly involved in the programme as well as other waterfront regeneration processes emerging in Scotland. In addition, it aims to guide a debate over issues surrounding economic, social and environmental aspects of regeneration activities in the country, in order to inform policy development and implementation.
The programme will include 4 workshops over 6 months, each exploring an aspect of development across each city and including a field trip, with a final workshop providing the opportunity to draw together conclusions and identify next steps for an ongoing knowledge exchange network of policy-makers, practitioners and academics.