A Guide to Riverfront Development - Riverlife

1A Guide to Riverfront DevelopmentA Guide to Riverfront DevelopmentConnecting communities to the water2 RiverlifeFunding For this document was made possible by the claude worthington benedum Foundation1A Guide to Riverfront DevelopmentIntroduction Natural River Edges Connections To the River Along the River Landings Districts Built Buildings Stormwater Character Landscape Public Art Lighting2 6 1015 20 21 2428 3237 40 Table of Contents2 Riverlife3A Guide to Riverfront DevelopmentSo went the common advice given to Pittsburgh children by their parents for nearly a century as they ventured out to play on warm summer afternoons. The warning is telling in a number of ways, offering a glimpse into the hostile conditions along Pittsburgh s urban riverfronts prior to 1990 and the public attitudes surrounding them. People living in the Pittsburgh region prior to the city s modern renaissance had good reason for concern. For generations the downtown riverfronts were largely invisible, cut off from neighborhoods by industrial yards, rail tracks and highways that took advantage of the riverfronts miles of flatness but created a tangle of barriers.

A guide to Riverfront Development 7 deFinitions riparian buffer A permanent naturally vegetated area located adjacent to a stream, river, lake, pond or wetland. morphology Deals with the form of living organisms, and with relationships between their structures. hydrology Encompasses the occurrence, distribution, movement, and

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