Research on the Method of Enhancing Public Value of Waterfront
Through Urban Design Guidelines:
A Case Study of the “One River, Two Banks” Area in Nanchang City
Abstract：Waterfront areas have always consistently been the most important areas for urban development and construction.
However, in the process of cross-river development, many cities tend to pay more attention to the economic interests,
and lack enough attention to how to enhance the public value of the waterfront, which leads to irrational development
results. This paper expounds the connotation of public value of waterfront from three dimensions: landscape value,
recreation value, and cultural value, and takes the waterfront of Ganjiang River with ultra-wide river surface in
Nanchang as an example. This research constructs an urban design guidance and control framework aiming at the
promotion of public value from six aspects: land function ratio, city public interface ratio, sight control, open space
organization mode, walkability to waterfront, and historical-cultural legibility, in order to provide references for the
development and construction of the waterfront.
