Methodological framework evaluates urban riverfront redevelopment impacts, suggesting enhanced urban planning strategies.
The redevelopment of port and industrial areas along urban riverfronts represents a complex spatial intervention with multiple physical (spatial), functional, and environmental impacts. Although such transformations are a frequent topic in contemporary research and urban planning practice, their evaluation is most oken conducted based on isolated sectoral indicators, without a comprehensive assessment of spatial changes and their relationship to the broader urban context. This paper presents a methodological contribution to the development of a multi-criteria evaluation framework for urban riverfront redevelopment by using a Geographic Information System (GIS). The research is conducted from an urban planning perspective and focuses on identifying and spatially analysing a selected set of criteria that describe changes in built structure, land use, transport connectivity, and the accessibility of public spaces. The analysis encompasses both the transformed area and its relationship to the adjacent urban fabric. The methodological framework is tested on selected examples of riverfront redevelopment in European cities of Nijmegen and Linz to examine the applicability of GIS-based spatial indicators within a multicriteria evaluation context. The results represent a step toward the development of a comprehensive evaluation method to support evidence-based decision-making in sustainable urban planning and riverfront regeneration.
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