Blue-Green Rehabilitation

Philip Hayward is an adjunct professor in the School of Community, Culture and Global Studies at the University of British Columbia, Kelowna. He is editor of the Environmental Humanities journal Shima, a strategic advisor to the international River Cities Network and co-coordinator of the Flowzones project in northern New South Wales (Australia). He has written widely on riverine and related aquatic topics in various journals and his latest volume is Aquapelagos: Integrated Marine and Terrestrial Assemblages, co-edited with May Joseph (Pratt Institute, New York) and published by Routledge in December 2024.

• Introduction: Vision, rhetoric and reality 1: Environmental, social and economic enablers and constraints for the revitalisation of urban waterways: The case of Padova (Italy) 2: From Bayou heritage to Blue-Green corridors: The development and contemporary urban functions of New Orleans’ Bayou St. John and Lafitte Greenway 3: Arts and recreation as environmental activism: Reimagining Brooklyn’s Newtown Creek and Gowanus Canal in the 21st Century 4: Blue-Green Infrastructure, tourism, leisure and lifestyle changes: A case study of the Iloilo River Esplanade Development 5: Mamsha Ahl Masr: A blueprint for sustainable urban revitalisation along the Nile River in Cairo 6: Blueing & Greening the Brown & Beige: Phoenix’s Rio Salado and imagined riparian Renaissance 7: “Turning our face to the river”: Leisure, nature, and politics in Barranquilla (Colombia) 8: Sydney’s Central River City: The dynamics and complexities of Parramatta’s blue-green reorientation 9: Blue rejuvenation and reconciliation; Belfast’s titanic watery renaissance 10: An agenda for optimising the social and environmental benefits of Blue-Green rehabilitation projects