Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
Draft Environmental Impact Statement and Section 4(f) Statement for West Side Highway, Interstate Route 478, Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel to Lincoln Tunnel, New York County
Author: Draft Environmental Impact Statement and Section 4(f) Statement for West Side Highway, Interstate Route 478: Environmental impact statement
Author: United States. Federal Highway AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental impact statements
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
West Side Hwy Project, New York
Author: Draft Environmental Impact Statement and Section 4(f) Statement for West Side Highway, Interstate Route 478: Summary of alternatives
Author: United States. Federal Highway AdministrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental impact statements
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Environmental Assessment Notebook Series
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental impact statements
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Notebook 1. Identification of transportation alternatives -- Notebook 2. Social impacts -- Notebook 3. Economic impacts -- Notebook 4. Physical impacts -- Notebook 5. Organization and content of environmental assessment materials -- Notebook 6. Environmental assessment reference book.
West Side Highway Project
Author: Creating the Hudson River Park
Author: Tom FoxPublisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 197881402X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
The 4-mile-long, 550-acre Hudson River Park is nearing completion and is the largest park built in Manhattan since Central Park opened more than 150 years ago. It has transformed a derelict waterfront, protected the Hudson River estuary, preserved commercial maritime activities, created new recreational opportunities for millions of New Yorkers, enhanced tourism, stimulated redevelopment in adjacent neighborhoods, and set a precedent for waterfront redevelopment. The Park attracts seventeen million visitors annually. Creating the Hudson River Park is a first-person story of how this park came to be. Working together over three decades, community groups, civic and environmental organizations, labor, the real estate and business community, government agencies, and elected officials won a historic victory for environmental preservation, the use and enjoyment of the Hudson River, and urban redevelopment. However, the park is also the embodiment of a troubling trend toward the commercialization of America’s public parks. After the defeat of the $2.4 billion Westway plan to fill 234 acres of the Hudson in 1985, the stage was set for the revitalization of Manhattan’s West Side waterfront. Between 1986 and 1998 the process focused on the basics like designing an appropriate roadway, removing noncompliant municipal and commercial activities from the waterfront, implementing temporary improvements, developing the Park’s first revenue-producing commercial area at Chelsea Piers, completing the public planning and environmental review processes, and negotiating the 1998 Hudson River Park Act that officially created the Park. From 1999 to 2009 planning and construction were funded with public money and focused on creating active and passive recreation opportunities on the Tribeca, Greenwich Village, Chelsea, and Hell’s Kitchen waterfronts. However, initial recommendations to secure long term financial support for the Park from the increase in adjacent real estate values that resulted from the Park’s creation were ignored. City and state politicians had other priorities and public funding for the Park dwindled. The recent phase of the project, from 2010 to 2021, focused on “development” both in and adjacent to the Park. Changes in leadership, and new challenges provide an opportunity to return to a transparent public planning process and complete the redevelopment of the waterfront for the remainder of the 21st-century. Fox’s first-person perspective helps to document the history of the Hudson River Park, recognizes those who made it happen and those who made it difficult, and provides lessons that may help private citizens and public servants expand and protect the public parks and natural systems that are so critical to urban well-being.
Westway Project
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Intergovernmental Relations and Human Resources SubcommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Express highways
Languages : en
Pages : 1578
Book Description
Environmental Assessment Notebook Series: Indentification of transportation alternatives
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental impact statements
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Notebook 1. Identification of transportation alternatives -- Notebook 2. Social impacts -- Notebook 3. Economic impacts -- Notebook 4. Physical impacts -- Notebook 5. Organization and content of environmental assessment materials -- Notebook 6. Environmental assessment reference book.
Environmental assessment notebook series
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Environmental impact statements
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description