Brooklyn Bridge Park : a dying waterfront transformed /
Brooklyn Bridge Park is as an internationally recognized attraction stretching along a waterfront that faces one of the world's great harbors and a storied skyline. It has utterly transformed a strip of moribund structures that formerly served bustling port activity. An inside look at how stron...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | New York : Empire State Editions, an imprint of Fordham University Press, 2016. ©2016. |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Summary: | Brooklyn Bridge Park is as an internationally recognized attraction stretching along a waterfront that faces one of the world's great harbors and a storied skyline. It has utterly transformed a strip of moribund structures that formerly served bustling port activity. An inside look at how strong willed tough minded community activists and locally elected officials persevered to prevent the behemoth Port Authority of New York and New Jersey from selling the defunct piers and their upland to real estate developers. Shows how Brooklyn Bridge Park relates not only to a growing demand both for new urban spaces and the restoration of rundown existing parks, but also to the growth of the whole "green" consciousness that has been developing over the past quarter century from which Brooklyn Bridge Park grew from a visionary idea to realization. -- |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 254 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 27 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 0823273571 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780823273577 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| FOLIO Link: | View instance in FOLIO |