Gateway harbour park
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Gateway harbour park Erie Canal Towanda
Tonawanda is home to overlook park nucleus of the new Gateway Harbour development, a public park that runs along the Erie Canal just before it joins the Niagara River. During summer months, local boaters are free to dock at the park, and connects landside visitors to the waterfront and the area becomes quite popular during the free concerts set up by the local council. The canal edge terraces up in an amphethetre formation which makes it perfect for events or just for people to sit back and eat their lunch or enjoy the sun. The design encompasses both the historic and the contempary. The gateway runs along the lines of the historic canal. The park connects several modes of transportation that overlap the park and provides areas to relax and view the activities on the canal http://www.gatewaypoint.com/ surround.html
simularities to waiheke
- The space also runs along the waters edge.
- There is also a conection between the locals and visitors by sea on this coastal edge that could be more strongly established through design.
- There is a strong history to Maitaita it is also a place that is moving forward so any design could encompasses both the historic and the contempary like gateway park.
- Maitaita also is a conection place of several modes of transport.
- It has been suggested that a place be incompassed in the design to cater for events so a outdoor amplethetre may be ideal.
referencelandscape architecture 2005 jan v95 n1 p34-38
