Author: Michael Gerard Spitaleri
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Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Manhattan Waterfront Revitalization
Author: Michael Gerard Spitaleri
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 152
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Reclaiming the City's Edge
Author: Douglas N. Pearl
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 166
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Category : New York (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 166
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New York City Comprehensive Waterfront Plan
Author: New York (N.Y.). Mayor (1990- : Dinkins)
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Category : City planning
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Cinema at the City's Edge
Author: Yomi Braester
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
ISBN: 962209984X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
East Asia is a pivotal region in the advancement of media technologies, globalized consumerism and branding economies. City and urban spaces are now attracting cinematic imaginaries and the academic examination of visual images and urban space in East Asian contexts. Highlighting changing conceptions and blurring boundaries of "where city ends and cinema begins," this collection offers an original contribution to film/media and cultural studies, urban studies, and sociology.-Koichi Iwabucchi, Waseda University The originality of this book on the fragmented cities of Asia lies in the manner in which it pins down the relationship between visual images and urban space. The arguments are eloquent and persuasive, with close readings of critical media texts. Many of the dynamic issues tackled in the book are "on the edge" of film and cultural studies in Asia and should attract a wide readership.-Zhou Xuelin, University of Auckland
Publisher: Hong Kong University Press
ISBN: 962209984X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
East Asia is a pivotal region in the advancement of media technologies, globalized consumerism and branding economies. City and urban spaces are now attracting cinematic imaginaries and the academic examination of visual images and urban space in East Asian contexts. Highlighting changing conceptions and blurring boundaries of "where city ends and cinema begins," this collection offers an original contribution to film/media and cultural studies, urban studies, and sociology.-Koichi Iwabucchi, Waseda University The originality of this book on the fragmented cities of Asia lies in the manner in which it pins down the relationship between visual images and urban space. The arguments are eloquent and persuasive, with close readings of critical media texts. Many of the dynamic issues tackled in the book are "on the edge" of film and cultural studies in Asia and should attract a wide readership.-Zhou Xuelin, University of Auckland
The Assassination of New York
Author: Robert Fitch
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453234039
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The story of how the richest city in the world became one of the poorest in North America, with a new introduction by Peter Kwong How did New York City come to be a network of steel towers, banks, and nail salons, with chain drugstores on every block—a place where, increasingly, no one can afford to live except the lords of Wall Street and foreign billionaires, and where more and more of the Big Apple’s best-loved businesses have closed their doors? It didn’t start with Michael Bloomberg—or with Robert Moses. As Robert Fitch meticulously demonstrates in this eye-opening book, the planning to assassinate New York began a century ago, as the city’s very richest few—the Morgans, the Mellons, and especially the Rockefellers—looked for ways to maximize the value of their real estate by pushing Gotham’s vibrant and astonishingly varied manufacturing sector out of town, and with it, the city’s working class. The Assassination of New York attacks a Goliath-like enemy: the real-estate developers who maintain a stranglehold on the city’s most valuable commodity. Their efforts to increase land value by replacing low-rent workers and factories with high-rent professionals and office buildings was one of the single most decisive factors in the city’s downturn. In the 1980s the number of real-estate vacancies eclipsed that of the fiscal crisis of the 1970s. In September of 1992 there was a staggering twenty-five million square feet of empty office space. Are the city’s problems fixable? How will the future of New York play out through the twenty-first century? Fitch comes up with solutions, from saving jobs to promoting economic diversity to rebuilding the crumbling infrastructure. But it will take vision and hard work to restore New York to what it once was while creating a new and better home for coming generations.
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1453234039
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
The story of how the richest city in the world became one of the poorest in North America, with a new introduction by Peter Kwong How did New York City come to be a network of steel towers, banks, and nail salons, with chain drugstores on every block—a place where, increasingly, no one can afford to live except the lords of Wall Street and foreign billionaires, and where more and more of the Big Apple’s best-loved businesses have closed their doors? It didn’t start with Michael Bloomberg—or with Robert Moses. As Robert Fitch meticulously demonstrates in this eye-opening book, the planning to assassinate New York began a century ago, as the city’s very richest few—the Morgans, the Mellons, and especially the Rockefellers—looked for ways to maximize the value of their real estate by pushing Gotham’s vibrant and astonishingly varied manufacturing sector out of town, and with it, the city’s working class. The Assassination of New York attacks a Goliath-like enemy: the real-estate developers who maintain a stranglehold on the city’s most valuable commodity. Their efforts to increase land value by replacing low-rent workers and factories with high-rent professionals and office buildings was one of the single most decisive factors in the city’s downturn. In the 1980s the number of real-estate vacancies eclipsed that of the fiscal crisis of the 1970s. In September of 1992 there was a staggering twenty-five million square feet of empty office space. Are the city’s problems fixable? How will the future of New York play out through the twenty-first century? Fitch comes up with solutions, from saving jobs to promoting economic diversity to rebuilding the crumbling infrastructure. But it will take vision and hard work to restore New York to what it once was while creating a new and better home for coming generations.
Reclaiming the Don
Author: Jennifer L. Bonnell
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442612258
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
With Reclaiming the Don, Jennifer L. Bonnell unearths the missing story of the relationship between the river, the valley, and the city, from the establishment of the town of York in the 1790s to the construction of the Don Valley Parkway in the 1960s.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442612258
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
With Reclaiming the Don, Jennifer L. Bonnell unearths the missing story of the relationship between the river, the valley, and the city, from the establishment of the town of York in the 1790s to the construction of the Don Valley Parkway in the 1960s.
At the City's Edge
Author: Marcus Sakey
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141937815
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Jason Palmer loved being a soldier. But after returning from Iraq with an "other than honourable" discharge, he's finding rebuilding his life the toughest battle yet. Elena Cruz is a talented cop, the first woman to make Chicago's prestigious Gang Intelligence Unit. She's ready for anything the job can throw at her. Until Jason's brother, a prominent community activist, is murdered in front of his own son. Now, stalked by brutal men with a shadowy agenda, Jason and Elena must unravel a conspiracy stretching from the darkest alleys of the ghetto to the manicured lawns of the city's power brokers. In a world where corruption and violence are simply the cost of doing business, two damaged people are all that stand between an innocent child - and the killers who will stop at nothing to find him.
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141937815
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Jason Palmer loved being a soldier. But after returning from Iraq with an "other than honourable" discharge, he's finding rebuilding his life the toughest battle yet. Elena Cruz is a talented cop, the first woman to make Chicago's prestigious Gang Intelligence Unit. She's ready for anything the job can throw at her. Until Jason's brother, a prominent community activist, is murdered in front of his own son. Now, stalked by brutal men with a shadowy agenda, Jason and Elena must unravel a conspiracy stretching from the darkest alleys of the ghetto to the manicured lawns of the city's power brokers. In a world where corruption and violence are simply the cost of doing business, two damaged people are all that stand between an innocent child - and the killers who will stop at nothing to find him.
Reclaiming the Edge
Author: Jennifer Meghan Kelly
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Waterfronts offer us the ability to change our urban environments with new opportunities for creating dramatic impacts on existing deteriorating land. The waterfront was the reason for the development of many cities, providing easy access for the transportation of goods. Today the water's edge is no longer necessary for commerce, which has left valuable land in urban cities ripe for redevelopment. Many of these abandoned sites offer opportunities for cities to rediscover their urban core by developing projects that redirect people to the opportunities of downtown through the recreation of an urban district or even by the creation of a new neighborhood. This project explores the possibility of creating a new neighborhood on the waterfront in downtown Jacksonville, Florida. The site is the former home of the Jacksonville Shipyards, which closed down and abandoned the land in the mid-1980s. My proposal for the former Jacksonville shipyards will be a transit-oriented development centered around a stop on the newly built light rail transit system. The design will be based on the principles of Peter Calthorpe, one of the foremost designers of transit-oriented developments, which comprise concentrated communities centered around a transit station. High to moderate densities are placed throughout the community, with jobs, retail, and services placed along the transit line. Peter Calthorpe's model for transit-oriented developments uses similar planning and design principles to the movement known as New Urbanism. The principles behind New Urbanism strive to create environments that allow commercial uses, housing, offices, and transit all to be within close proximity to one another. A compact environment, approximately 1/4 mile radius that is a five-minute walk for most people, allows people to walk to their destinations. Pedestrian-friendly streets are designed to connect directly to local destinations. A transit-oriented development provides a mix of housing types, densities, and generates a diverse group of residents. Urban transit oriented developments as prescribed by Calthorpe have high commercial and job clusters with high residential densities.
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Waterfronts offer us the ability to change our urban environments with new opportunities for creating dramatic impacts on existing deteriorating land. The waterfront was the reason for the development of many cities, providing easy access for the transportation of goods. Today the water's edge is no longer necessary for commerce, which has left valuable land in urban cities ripe for redevelopment. Many of these abandoned sites offer opportunities for cities to rediscover their urban core by developing projects that redirect people to the opportunities of downtown through the recreation of an urban district or even by the creation of a new neighborhood. This project explores the possibility of creating a new neighborhood on the waterfront in downtown Jacksonville, Florida. The site is the former home of the Jacksonville Shipyards, which closed down and abandoned the land in the mid-1980s. My proposal for the former Jacksonville shipyards will be a transit-oriented development centered around a stop on the newly built light rail transit system. The design will be based on the principles of Peter Calthorpe, one of the foremost designers of transit-oriented developments, which comprise concentrated communities centered around a transit station. High to moderate densities are placed throughout the community, with jobs, retail, and services placed along the transit line. Peter Calthorpe's model for transit-oriented developments uses similar planning and design principles to the movement known as New Urbanism. The principles behind New Urbanism strive to create environments that allow commercial uses, housing, offices, and transit all to be within close proximity to one another. A compact environment, approximately 1/4 mile radius that is a five-minute walk for most people, allows people to walk to their destinations. Pedestrian-friendly streets are designed to connect directly to local destinations. A transit-oriented development provides a mix of housing types, densities, and generates a diverse group of residents. Urban transit oriented developments as prescribed by Calthorpe have high commercial and job clusters with high residential densities.
New York City Comprehensive Waterfront Plan Reclaiming the City's Edge
Author: U. S. Government Printing Office (Gpo)
Publisher: BiblioGov
ISBN: 9781289099473
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The United States Government Printing Office (GPO) was created in June 1860, and is an agency of the the U.S. federal government based in Washington D.C. The office prints documents produced by and for the federal government, including Congress, the Supreme Court, the Executive Office of the President and other executive departments, and independent agencies. The Coastal Zone Information Center (CZIC) collection provides access to nearly 5,000 coastal related documents that the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) received from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Central Library. The collection provides almost 30 years of data and information crucial to the understanding of U.S. coastal management and NOAA's mission to sustain healthy coasts. This is one of their documents.
Publisher: BiblioGov
ISBN: 9781289099473
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
The United States Government Printing Office (GPO) was created in June 1860, and is an agency of the the U.S. federal government based in Washington D.C. The office prints documents produced by and for the federal government, including Congress, the Supreme Court, the Executive Office of the President and other executive departments, and independent agencies. The Coastal Zone Information Center (CZIC) collection provides access to nearly 5,000 coastal related documents that the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) received from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Central Library. The collection provides almost 30 years of data and information crucial to the understanding of U.S. coastal management and NOAA's mission to sustain healthy coasts. This is one of their documents.
Governors Island Disposition of Surplus Federal Real Property
Author:
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 776
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 776
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