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The focus of this research was to understand, through interviews and content analysis, how residents and officials in a medium-sized New England port community thought about urban planning issues around their working waterfront. In particular, it analyzed how the co-creation of knowledge by residents, activists, and planners could support future waterfront planning efforts and address some of the challenges faced in this port community. Despite similar visions for the waterfront, residents and city planning documents often framed and explained their visions differently. Residents frequently mentioned overall quality of life concerns (public health and safety) as well as environmental/ecosystem health concerns. City waterfront planning documents focused more heavily on sustainable development and economic concerns. Implications are that community dialogue through a non-profit can mobilize residents in implementing just sustainability and increasing community well-being.
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Because the two waterfront studies focused on the Eastern Avenue district, these findings do not reflect the city’s priorities for the Marginal Street district.
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Funding for this research was provided by the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University. Special thanks go to Rob Hollister and Roseann Bongiovanni for their support of this work.
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Hollander, J.B., Soule, J. (2017). Stakeholder Preferences on a Working Waterfront: Quality of Life, Land Uses and Planning Processes in Chelsea, Massachusetts. In: Phillips, R., Wong, C. (eds) Handbook of Community Well-Being Research. International Handbooks of Quality-of-Life. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-024-0878-2_18
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