The Floating Pool Lady : A Quest to Bring a Public Pool to New York City's Waterfront /

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"Waterfront planner, urban historian, and parks advocate Ann Buttenwieser looked to New York City's nineteenth-century past to find inspiration for a floating pool that would bring New Yorkers back to their waterfront and give them the experience of swimming in water on water"--

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Buttenwieser, Ann L., 1935- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca [New York] : Three Hills, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Floating Pool Lady (Barge) > History.
Public baths
Public baths > New York (State) > New York > History.
Swimming pools > Social aspects > New York (State) > New York.
New York (State) > New York
History
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Swim Annie, swim!
  • Fire and water
  • The eureka moment
  • Waterfront in despair
  • Hoboken ho
  • Finding C
  • Contracts and crawdads
  • Kafka on the pier
  • Perspective matters
  • The Orwellian bureaucracy
  • The big jump
  • The lady moves to the Bronx
  • Swim, New York City's children, swim.

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