Waterfronts NL’s integrated approach to development, where multiple disciplines (architecture, engineering, specialists), scales (regional, local, pilot projects), and layers (infrastructure, landscape, water) are approached together. 
Waterfronts NL participants KuiperCompagnons and Royal HaskoningDHV, along with the City of Poznan in Poland created a development strategy to bring back the Warta River to the historical city centre. The project addresses two fundamental issues which previous engineering strategies were unable to reconcile: a decrease in water safety (and increase in flooding), and the lost relationship between the city of 600,000 residents and the river.
Central to the process of creating the strategy was the principle of joint initiative, and creating an integrated plan. For the first time in Poland, this single strategy presents an integrated solution for water safety, spatial quality, and economic feasibility. The project explored options on a range of scales, and provides guidance on regional, city, neighbourhood, historical city-centre, pilot projects, and building scale.
This project is an excellent example of Waterfronts NL’s integrated approach to development, where multiple disciplines (architecture, engineering, specialists), scales (regional, local, pilot projects), and layers (infrastructure, landscape, water) are approached together. This project also demonstrates how Dutch examples can be used to understand flood prevention worldwide, materials from one process can be used for another, and different uses can complement each other rather than compete with each other. The full strategy can be viewed here.
