| Description |
310 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Masterworks / John Jay Iselin -- The Printed Whale (In Search Of) / John Hejduk -- Reflections on the Essential City / Kevin Bone -- The Beautiful Lake: The Promise of the Natural Systems / Donald Squires and Kevin Bone -- Masterplanning: Municipal Support of Maritime Transport and Commerce 1870-1930s / Mary Beth Betts -- Horizontal City: Architecture and Construction in the Port of New York / Kevin Bone -- Transforming the Edge: Overview of Selected Plans and Projects / Gina Pollara -- Evolving Purposes: The Case of the Hudson River Waterfront / Michael Z. Wise, Wilbur Woods and Eugenia Bone -- Modest Endeavors: Reclaiming the Shoreline / Michael Z. Wise -- Afterword: waterfront development at the beginning of the Twenty-first century / Gina Pollara |
| Summary |
Created by a team of architects, historians, teachers, and students, The New York Waterfront is an unprecedented documentation of the rise and fall of the waterfront's architectural, technological, industrial, and commercial existence over the past 150 years |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [278]-280) |
| Subject |
Waterfronts -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
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Waterfronts -- New York (State) -- New York -- Design and construction -- History.
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Harbors -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
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City planning -- New York (State) -- New York -- History.
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| Author |
Greenberg, Stanley, 1956-
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Bone, Kevin.
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Betts, Mary Beth.
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| ISBN |
1885254547 |
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