waterfront

waterfront
    n 1: the area of a city (such as a harbor or dockyard) alongside
         a body of water
    

32 Moby Thesaurus words for "waterfront":
      bank, beach, berm, coast, coastland, coastline, embankment,
      foreshore, ironbound coast, lido, littoral, plage, playa,
      riverside, riviera, rockbound coast, sands, sea margin, seabank,
      seabeach, seaboard, seacliff, seacoast, seashore, seaside, shingle,
      shore, shoreline, strand, submerged coast, tidewater, waterside