Author: New York (N.Y.). Mayor (1990- : Dinkins)
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 282

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Author: Barbara La Rocco
Publisher: Going Coastal, Inc.
ISBN: 9780972980302
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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An ultra-useful guide that brings together all the information necessary to enjoy the waterfront, in a compact, well-organized form - Phillip Lopate, author of Waterfront: A Journey Around Manhattan Use this guide to discover the beaches, boardwalks, historic sites, and marine attractions, as well as the limitless opportunities for waterside fun, dining, and adventure in the five boros of New York. Designed for travelers and locals, alike, Going Coastal New York City offers the best, most comprehensive information on what's happening along New York City's over 500 miles of coastline.

Author: Neal Stephenson
Publisher: Harper Collins
ISBN: 0061847380
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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The New York Times Book Review called Neal Stephenson's most recent novel "electrifying" and "hilarious". but if you want to know Stephenson was doing twenty years before he wrote the epic Cryptonomicon, it's back-to-school time. Back to The Big U, that is, a hilarious send-up of American college life starring after years our of print, The Big U is required reading for anyone interested in the early work of this singular writer.

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Languages : en
Pages : 384

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Author: Kurt C. Schlichting
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press+ORM
ISBN: 1421425246
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 353

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“Rich in historical, sociological, and economic detail . . . a new way to look at the ascendancy and growth of America’s most important city.” —Civil Engineering With its maritime links across the oceans, along the Atlantic coast, and inland to the Midwest and New England, Manhattan became a global city and home to the world’s busiest port. It was a world of docks, ships, tugboats, and ferries, filled with cargo and freight, a place where millions of immigrants entered the Promised Land. In Waterfront Manhattan, Kurt C. Schlichting tells the story of the Manhattan waterfront as a struggle between public and private control of New York’s priceless asset. From colonial times until after the Civil War, the city ceded control of the waterfront to private interests, excluding the public entirely and sparking a battle between shipping companies, the railroads, and ferries for access to the waterfront. In the second half of the nineteenth century, the City of New York regained control of the waterfront, but a whirlwind of forces beyond the control of either public or private interests—technological change in the form of the shipping container and the jet airplane—devastated the city’s maritime world. The city slowly and painfully recovered. Visionaries reimagined the waterfront, and today the island is almost completely surrounded by parkland, the world of piers and longshoremen gone, replaced by luxury housing and tourist attractions. Waterfront Manhattan is “an impressive narrative which is sure to shed light on this underappreciated aspect of New York City history” (Global Maritime History). “An important book. There is much to ponder on the future of New York City’s harbor.” —Journal of American History

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Languages : en
Pages : 776

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Author: Elizabeth Macdonald
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317581350
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 576

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Some cities have long-treasured waterfront promenades, many cities have recently built ones, and others have plans to create them as opportunities arise. Beyond connecting people with urban water bodies, waterfront promenades offer many social and ecological benefits. They are places for social gathering, for physical activity, for relief from the stresses of urban life, and where the unique transition from water to land eco-systems can be nurtured and celebrated. The best are inclusive places, welcoming and accessible to diverse users. This book explores urban waterfront promenades worldwide. It presents 38 promenade case studies—as varied as Vancouver’s extensive network that has been built over the last century, the classic promenades in Rio de Janeiro, the promenades in Stockholm’s recently built Hammarby Sjöstad eco-district, and the Ma On Shan promenade in the Hong Kong New Territories—analyzing their physical form, social use, the circumstances under which they were built, the public policies that brought them into being, and the threats from sea level rise and the responses that have been made. Based on wide research, Urban Waterfront Promenades examines the possibilities for these public spaces and offers design and planning approaches useful for professionals, community decision-makers, and scholars. Extensive plans, cross sections, and photographs permit visual comparison.

Author: Jesse M. Keenan
Publisher: Columbia Books on Architecture and the City / Columbia University Press
ISBN: 1883584884
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 150

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New York 2040: Housing the Next One Million New Yorkers is a transdisciplinary examination of how to plausible and equitable house future generations of New Yorkers. Through the development of a computational platform that measures both the quantitative and qualitative implications of simulated development, the books test a working hypothesis that certain zones within NYC have the potential for greater levels of density and intensity of use.

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Languages : en
Pages : 592

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Publisher: Going Coastal, Inc.
ISBN: 9780972980319
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 336

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Originally compiled in 1941, this republication retains its cast of colorful characters--ranging from pirates and smugglers to merchants and public officials--and includes new historical information and updated material.