ARM Architecture and TCL
Recent post-industrial city expansion has looked to under-utilized land close to central business districts in order to add, extend or modify the city’s program, morphology and identity. Dock areas – historically located close to the network of transport, markets and workers that supported their presence – have been a common target for this kind of renewal. Relocation of industrial activity has left many cities blighted by large tracts of land between the contemporary corporate city and its waterways. These areas are commonly contaminated and often publicly inaccessible; they can present physical and psychological barriers between a city and its water.
There is substantial political capital in successfully reconnecting cities to their waterfronts. In the paradigmatic case of Battery Park City in New York, relocation of port activity left a swathe of
