Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1 An Assembly of Waterfront Promenades
Chapter 1 Vancouver’s Waterfront Promenade Network
Chapter 2 Classic Grand Promenades
Chapter 3 Beachfront Boardwalks and Promenades
Chapter 4 Riverfront Promenade Loops
Chapter 5 Park Promenades Along Former Industrial Waterfronts
Chapter 6 Promenades in the Shadow of Freeways
Chapter 7 Spectacle Promenades
Chapter 8 Eco-District Promenades
Chapter 9 Suburban New Town Promenades
Chapter 10 Promontory Promenades
Chapter 11 Classic Bridge Promenades
Chapter 12 Incrementally Built Central Area Promenades
Part 2 Patterns of Connectivity and Access
Part 3 Designing Waterfront Promenades
Chapter 13 Designing for People and Place
Chapter 14 Meeting the Challenge of Rising Water
Chapter 15 Reflections
Appendix: People Volumes on Selected Promenades
Index
Biography
Elizabeth Macdonald, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Urban Design in the Departments of City and Regional Planning and Landscape Architecture/Environmental Planning at the University of California, Berkeley. She is author of Pleasure Drives and Promenades: A History of Frederick Law Olmsted’s Brooklyn Parkways (2012), co-author of The Boulevard Book: History, Evolution, Design of Multiway Boulevards (2002), and co-editor of The Urban Design Reader (2013).
