Brooklyn Bridge Park : A Dying Waterfront Transformed /

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"Stretching along a waterfront that faces one of the world's greatest harbors and storied skylines, Brooklyn Bridge Park is among the largest and most significant public projects to be built in New York in a generation. It has transformed a decrepit industrial waterfront into a new public...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Witty, Joanne (Author), Krogius, Henrik (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Empire State Editions, an imprint of Fordham University Press, 2016.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Waterfronts > Planning.
Parks.
Waterfronts > New York (State) > New York > Planning.
Parks > New York (State) > New York > History.
New York (State) > New York > Brooklyn Bridge Park.
New York (State) > New York.
Brooklyn Bridge Park (New York, N.Y.) > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • The stage
  • All hell breaks loose
  • The Manheim years
  • A new game with a fresh team
  • Strange bedfellows
  • Public planning
  • Public planning continues
  • Money and political gamesmanship
  • Breaking and logjam
  • Reality sets in
  • Housing "in the park"
  • At long last, shovels
  • The politics of housing
  • The park begins to materialize
  • Deep differences over a nineteenth-century relic
  • A hurricane has unexpected consequences
  • The growing experience
  • Learning from the site
  • The politics of housing, continued
  • Waterfront, parks, and community planning
  • Reflections on Brooklyn Bridge Park
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendix: Brooklyn Bridge Part thirteen guiding principles
  • Timeline
  • Cast of major characters
  • Organization and agency names, abbreviations, and acronyms.

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