The thesis focuses on the Delta site of Rijeka, Croatia, which as part of a World Bank project, is slated to be cleared of present operations and opened for private development and public access to the sea.

The paper leads to a design proposal: a conceptual master plan for a new public space: Park-na-Moru / Park-at-Sea.

It also seeks to answer the following questions:
How can trust and security be re-established in places familiar with war?  How can we build cities that resist homogenized enclaves, islands of prosperity and ghettoes of dearth? How can the processes of nature regain a presence in places cleared for industry? How can cities thrive on the integration of environmental health with economic advancement?

It threads this discussion through the categories of the perceptual, the socio-political, the cultural and the ecological for an inter-disciplinary approach to landscape architecture.
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The Sea, the Port &  New Democracy: The Delta of Rijeka, Croatia
Cornell University, Masters Thesis, 2004
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