Watery spaces read like absence on the map. And of course the space left after industry has deserted dock and canal often does leave derelict sites, forgotten spaces. For each of these there are opportunities and hopes: the grand designs for the canalside Warwick Bar in Digbeth, Birmingham, are now temporary food growing plots at Edible Eastside. A Patel Taylor design for a headland walk to link Cardiff Bay to the town of Penarth never made it, nor did Gensler's 1km London River Park proposal to inhabit the Thames for 2012. But each leaves a trace, a ripple in the pool of the places memory. Do you remember that image of a baths and gardens designed by Studio Egret West in the Royal Docks in East London?
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