What we can learn from these cases
Niagara Region United States and Canada

Michael Schwarze-Rodrian, Parkbericht: Emscher Landschafts-Park. Essen: Kommunalverband Ruhrgebiet, 1996.

Michael Schwarze-Rodrian, planner, International Building Exhibition, Emscher Park, March 2000.

The Waterfront Regeneration Trust is an independent, non-profit registered charity dedicated to meeting the challenge of protecting and restoring those elements of the waterfront that we value — ecological health, a sense of community, economic vitality – by bringing together people, ideas and resources for regeneration.

Since its inception, the Trust has established a strong reputation as an innovative organization that can build consensus, facilitate resolution of complex issues and bring together the partners needed for implementation. Originally established in 1992 under Ontario provincial legislation to implement the recommendations of the Royal Commission on the Future of the Toronto Waterfront, the Trust completed its transition to independent status in 1999. The Waterfront Regeneration Trust is committed to a philosophy that humans are a part of nature, not separate from it; that everything is connected to everything else; and that we are responsible for our actions to ourselves, to other people, to other generations, and to other species. The work of the Trust and its partners is guided by nine principles – that waterfronts should be clean, green, accessible, connected, open, useable, diverse, affordable and attractive.

For further information contact:
Beth Benson, Executive Director
The Waterfront Regeneration Trust
207 Queen’s Quay West, Suite 403
Toronto, Ontario M5J 1A7
Ph. 416-943-8080
Ph. 416-943-8068
e-mail bb@wrtrust.com

Photographic Credits:

1. Blackstone River Valley Heritage Corridor
2. Aerial view of submerged village, Guerrero Viejo. B. Parvin in A Shared Experience, by Mario L. Sanchez, 1994.
3. Map of the Texas-Mexico border area, circa 1859. By Mario L. Sanchez, 1994, from A Shared Experience
4. Moffett Mill (1812) is a rare surviving example of an early water-powered machine shop, Lincoln, R.I. Blackstone River Valley National Heristage Corridor.
5. Samuel Slater is credited for engineering the first successful cotton spinning mill in 1793, Pawtucket, R.I. Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor.
6. The story of the Industrial Revolution was also one of women working in the new mills. Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor.
7. The Blackstone River Valley was the literal cradle of the Industrial Revolution. Blackstone River Valley National Heritage Corridor.
8. This Tetrahedron pyramid was constructed on top of a reclaimed slag heap. Internationale Bauaustellung Emscher Park.
9. Factory ruins preserved an night-lit in Emscher Park. Internationale Bauaustellung Emscher Park.
10. Factory ruins preserved an night-lit in Emscher Park. Internationale Bauaustellung Emscher Park.
11. The Kellogg elevator is part of Buffalo's "Concrete Atlantis" - a body of industrial architecture revered for its pure modernist spirit. Patricia Layman Bazelon.
12. Niagara Falls, one fof the world's premier touriam atractions has powered industry for a century , and fueled imaginations for much longer. Urban Design Project Archives.

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