In a city defined by water, a look at one way to get to it The
City of Pittsburgh, like many of its formerly industrial
brethren, has made a number of moves to reclaim the working
waterfront as active places for human activity. In most cases,
this involves installing trails in linear parks with recreation
nodes in place of the mills and plants that once relied upon
water access. In these cases the recreational and riparian
reclaimed edge pushes back buildings and their uses from the
water they so desperately want to be on. The marina at
Washington's Landing provides one exception where use of and
engagement with the water occur as a matter of course. In this
simple analysis, we'll look at the six core characteristics that
make it work: