Title New York's new edge : contemporary art, the High Line, and urban megaprojects on the far West Side / David Halle and Elisabeth Tiso

Published Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2014 ©2014

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Description 1 online resource (461 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents Introduction: Developing New York's far West Side: contemporary art, the High Line, Megaprojects, and urban growth -- Part I: Contemporary art -- Chelsea as New York's dominant contemporary art gallery neighborhood: a real estate and finance story -- Contemporary art and life -- Part II: "Preservation" projects -- The High Line -- The Gansevoort Market: from meat smells and prostitution to historic district, fashion central, Google headquarters, and Whitney Museum -- Part III: Megaprojects: why they often don't happen or take so long if they do, from Javits expansion to Moynihan Station -- The Javits expansion fiasco -- The debate over urban stadiums: the New York Sports and Convention Center fight (2004-2005) -- The Hudson Yards: rezonings of 2004-2009 and beyond: the city's uniform land use review process, inclusionary zoning for affordable housing, tax increment financing and the Number 7 subway extension, and the Culture Shed -- Penn/Moynihan Station, 1992: fixing infrastructure -- Part IV: Challenges to Chelsea's art gallery district from the Lower East Side -- The Lower East Side and the new museum: the next Chelsea, or another "wrong turn"? -- Conclusion: Balancing urban growth and protection/preservation Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 427-439) and index Notes Description based on print version record Subject Jacob K. Javits Convention Center (New York, N.Y.) Moynihan Station (New York, N.Y.) Hudson Yards Development Corporation. Urban renewal -- New York (State) -- New York. Historic districts -- New York (State) -- New York. SUBJECT West Side (New York, N.Y.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97036680 Chelsea (Manhattan, New York, N.Y.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n97044401 Chelsea Historic District (New York, N.Y.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2001078533 High Line (New York, N.Y. : Park) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2011002384 Gansevoort Market Historic District (New York, N.Y.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2003128354 Form Electronic book Author Tiso, Elisabeth (Art historian), author ISBN 9780226032542 (electronic bk.) 022603254X (electronic bk.)

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