Urban Waterfront Planning:

characterization of scientific production through bibliometric analysis

Abstract

Waterfronts hold enormous potential to drive the change that some important territories require considering the multiple challenges they face today. Their past of enormous importance to the urban economy is now matched by their centrality to the changes that need to occur in cities. They are therefore territories that have played different roles over time and whose urban planning has changed. In this context, this study aims to explore and understand scientific production about the urban planning of waterfronts. To this end, the study was conducted using bibliometric analyses. The bibliometric analyses were divided into performance analysis and scientific mapping. The performance analyses show the topicality of the subject, the predominance in terms of countries, institutions, and authors, and terms of field of study and journals. The scientific mapping carried out through co-word analysis allows us to understand the main topics covered in the literature on urban waterfront planning.