The Accidental Playground : Brooklyn Waterfront Narratives of the Undesigned and Unplanned
Highly illustrated and artfully researched, the book will draw readers into a unique space in one of New York City's most popular boroughs. The Accidental Playground explores the remarkable landscape created by individuals and small groups who occupied and rebuilt an abandoned Brooklyn waterfro...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Fordham University Press,
2013.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Contents; Prologue; 1 Discovering and Engaging a Vacated Waterfront; 2 The Rise and Fall of Shantytown Skatepark; 3 March and Burn: Practice, Performance, and Leisure without a Plan; Color photographs; 4 Outside Art: Exploring Wildness and Reclamation at the Water's Edge; 5 Local Tales: Hanging Out and Observing Life on the Waterfront; 6 Residential Life: Hardship and Resiliency on the Waterfront; 7 Neighbors Against Garbage: Activism and Uneasy Alliances on the Waterfront; 8 Unplanned Postscript: Dogs, Sunsets, Rock Bands, and the Governance of a Waterfront Park.
- 9 Planning for the UnplannedNotes; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.