Kurzfassung

Coastal urban development incorporates a wide range of
development activities that are taking place as a result of the water
element existing in the fabric of the city. This element may have
different forms (i.e. a bay, a river, or a brook) but in almost all
cases the surrounding area constitutes what maybe considered as the
heart of the city. Every city that incorporates the water-element in its
fabric is confronted with the fundamental requirement of developing
policies for driving development in...Coastal urban development incorporates a wide range of
development activities that are taking place as a result of the water
element existing in the fabric of the city. This element may have
different forms (i.e. a bay, a river, or a brook) but in almost all
cases the surrounding area constitutes what maybe considered as the
heart of the city. Every city that incorporates the water-element in its
fabric is confronted with the fundamental requirement of developing
policies for driving development in the surrounding area, while
balancing between: a) economic growth, b) protection of the
environmental, and c) safeguarding social cohesion. This requirement is
tightly connected with the concept of Urban Resilience, which is the
capacity of individuals, communities, businesses and systems within a
city to survive, adapt and grow no matter what chronic stresses and
acute shocks they experience. In developing policies that add value to
the resilience of a city, we shift the existing paradigm of policy
making, which is largely based on intuition, towards an evidence-driven
approach enabled by big data. Our attention is placed on policies
related to the water element. Our basis is the sensing infrastructures
installed in the cities offering demographic data, statistical
information, sensor readings and user contributed content forming the
big data layer. Methods for big data analytics are used to measure the
economic activity, assess the environmental impact and evaluate the
social consequences. The extracted pieces of evidence are used to
inform, advice, monitor, evaluate and revise the decisions made by
policy planners. Finally, effective policies are developed dealing with:
a) the economic and urban development of Thermaikos Bay, Thessaloniki,
b) the transformation of Düden Brook into a recreation and park area,
Antalya, c) the development of a Storm Water Plan, Antwerp, and d) the
review of the Country Development Plan in the River Lee territory, City
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