Plan for the Manhattan Waterfront
Author | : New York (N.Y.). Department of City Planning |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : City planning |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : New York (N.Y.). Department of City Planning |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : City planning |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Borough of Manhattan. President |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : New York (NY) |
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Author | : Manhattan (New York, N.Y.). Office of the Borough President |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Waterfronts |
ISBN | : |
Author | : New York (N.Y.). City Planning Commission |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : City planning |
ISBN | : |
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : City planning |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Ann L. Buttenwieser |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Kurt C. Schlichting |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2018-05-15 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1421425238 |
"Nature provided New York with a sheltered harbor but the city with a challenge: to find the necessary capital to build and expand the maritime infrastructure. In the 17th and 18th centuries, the city's government did not have the responsibility or the fiscal resources to develop needed port facilities. To build the infrastructure, the government awarded "water-lots" to private individuals to build wharves and piers, surrendering public control of the waterfront. For over 250 years private enterprise ran the waterfront; the city played a peripheral role. By the end of the Civil War chaos reigned and threatened the port's dominance. In 1870 the city and state created the Department of Docks to exercise public control and rebuild the maritime infrastructure for the new era of steamships and ocean liners. A hundred years later, technological change in the form of the shipping container and jet airplane rendered Manhattan's waterfront obsolete within an incredibly short time span. The maritime use of the shoreline collapsed, mirroring the near death of the city of New York in the 1970s. Ships disappeared and abandoned piers and empty warehouses lined the waterfront. The city slowly and painfully recovered. The empty waterfront allowed visionaries and planners to completely reimagine a shore lined with parkland. Along the new waterfront, luxury housing has transformed the waterfront neighborhoods where the Irish longshoremen once lived. A few remaining piers offer spectacular views of the city's waterways, now a most precious asset. The rebirth has been driven by complex private/public partnerships, with the city of New York playing only a peripheral role. The contentious question of private vs. public control of the waterfront remains a continuing issue in the 21st century"--
Author | : Regional Plan of New York and Its Environs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 8 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Waterfronts |
ISBN | : |
Author | : David L. A. Gordon |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2012-11-12 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1136647600 |
Battery Park City in Manhattan has been hailed as a triumph of urban design, and is considered to be one of the success stories of American urban redevelopment planning. The flood of praise for its design, however, can obscure the many lessons from the long struggle to develop the project. Nothing was built on the site for more than a decade after the first master plan was approved, and the redevelopment agency flirted with bankruptcy in 1979. Taking a practice-oriented approach, the book examines the role of planning and development agencies in implementing urban waterfront redevelopment. It focuses upon the experience of the central actor - the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) - and includes personal interviews with executives of the BPCA, former New York mayors John Lindsay and Ed Koch, key public officials, planners, and developers. Describing the political, financial, planning, and implementation issues faced by public agencies and private developers from 1962 to 1993, it is both a case study and history of one of the most ambitious examples of urban waterfront redevelopment.
Author | : New York (N.Y.). Mayor (1990- : Dinkins) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 282 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : City planning |
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