I can vaguely say that what we're trying to do in New York is to follow up the general trajectory the city has taken, integrating parks and recreation spaces, rejuvenating the waterfront, planting trees and creating bicycle paths.
There's a new 101-hectare green space just outside Singapore, called Gardens by the Bay, with waterfront planting and several "Supertrees" – 16-storey gardens that collect rainwater and generate solar power, with a 128m suspended walkway between them.
In recent decades, as New York hemorrhaged manufacturing jobs, especially along the waterfront, the plant has been the scene of bitter strikes that drastically cut production.
While creating connections to waterfronts and planting more trees are no-brainers, he calls for "an integrated, multi-scalar approach," in which biophilic experiences are embedded at "interconnected scales and levels".
Most factories lie north of the port along the waterfront, with newer plants on the western outskirts.
"In the '70s and '80s," Mr. Dennis said, "the vision for the Brooklyn waterfront included power plants, incinerators and garbage dumps.
But the future of Alexandria's waterfront near the GenOn plant awaits resolution of disputes involving the city's elected officials, planners and citizens.
By the 1920's, Hastings was an industrial town with two waterfront employers: a chemical plant and a cable and wire company.
Frederick Bland of Beyer Blinder Belle, the Manhattan architectural firm that is designing the project for Clearview, said: "For the past 150 years the borough has been increasingly cut off from its waterfront as the Atwood plant grew.
