All rights reservedWang, SichengTang, LinglingKong, LingyuHan, Jing2024-03-212024-03-212015978-80-01-05782-7https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/1498Book of proceedings: Annual AESOP Congress, Definite Space – Fuzzy Responsibility, Prague, 13-16th July, 2015For most coastal metropolitans, the waterfront areas provide various valuable resources, However, reasonable arrangement and utilization of different resources, scientific distribution of diverse functions and efficient management of various urban elements with the limited space are major difficulties for urban planners. This study chooses 14 famous coastal cities over the world as the research objects, to conduct a quantitative analysis. Researchers have demarcated a 10-km2 waterfront area (10-kilometer-long coast, 1-kilometer-wide outspread urban space) in each case city with a screenshot software based on Google Earth, then marked different components on the map with different colours, and calculated the ratios of buildings and lands with different functions. Moreover, this study has elaborately analysed the qualities, functions and heights of buildings through the open-source plat form Open street map and Geographic Information System, for answering three questions: (1)the proportions and percentages of various types of lands; (2) the types, forms and heights of constructions and buildings; (3)the organization of road net system. 'The result of the study has concluded key elements of coastal-waterfront space planning, utilization and management.EnglishopenAccessconferenceObject3469-3483