Urban Waterfron Recreation Territories: A Dialogue with Water

The Paper investigates the different aspects and possibilities of a dialogue with water in contemporary practice of urban recreation. The place and importance of the value of waterfront territories in complex nature-based solution for the future urban growth have yet to be understood and realized. Now the city is regarded as an open system and, at the same time, the array of its waterfront territories in contemporary urban planning is in the focus of developers. The trends and tendencies of architectural & landscape organization of the urban territories near water are revealed on the analysis of international project practice. This waterfront zones are shown as the most dynamic and claimed objects of planning practice, especially in dialogue with water, where the study of the relation: “the natural qualities of water – the naturally built environment - the psycho-emotional conditions of human beings” are passed over