Advantages And Disadvantage Of Waterfront

WATERFRONT:
DESIGN FOR ATTRACTABILITY AND COMMUNITY SPCAE

CHAPTER 1

1.1 Preface

Rivers and waterfront are valuable natural resources for human life, the environment and national development. Water plays an essential role in people’s lives and has long been recognized as one of humanity’s most important natural resources. Indeed, the allure of water is powerful and universal.

Waterfront is an area of land abuts water, such as a bay, ocean, creek, canal, river, lake or harbour etc. According to Costanza (1999) almost 71 percent of the earth’s surface was covered by water and 95% of the world's great cities are located on rivers, estuaries, coastal harbours and lakes, entrusting their origin and prosperity to water transport and trade, especially a district of wharves where ships docks; A close association between cities and water is inherent since the history of civilization whereby most cities are located on or near a water body of some type. For example, the Straits of Malacca, one of the busiest narrow bodies of water in the world, 805km (about 500miles) stretch of water between Peninsular Malaysia and Sumatra (Indonesian island).

In Malaysia, from earliest times, civilizations have been established upon the banks of oceans and rivers, same as other cities in the world. In fact many urban cities in

But they are not planned carefully and consistently. They are always connected with close by means of reflecting immediately any change in social, economic, and industrial environmental. Therefore in many cities, the waterfronts are seen as the focal point. The seafronts, riverfronts and lakefronts that were the shipping and industrial birthplace of many cities remain prime locations. Reimagining a waterfront could be acts as a multi-use public gathering place, is a golden opportunity for a city to redefine