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1 online resource (319 pages) |
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Cover; Contents; Prologue; 1 Discovering and Engaging a Vacated Waterfront; 2 The Rise and Fall of Shantytown Skatepark; 3 March and Burn: Practice, Performance, and Leisure without a Plan; Color photographs; 4 Outside Art: Exploring Wildness and Reclamation at the Water's Edge; 5 Local Tales: Hanging Out and Observing Life on the Waterfront; 6 Residential Life: Hardship and Resiliency on the Waterfront; 7 Neighbors Against Garbage: Activism and Uneasy Alliances on the Waterfront; 8 Unplanned Postscript: Dogs, Sunsets, Rock Bands, and the Governance of a Waterfront Park |
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9 Planning for the UnplannedNotes; Acknowledgments; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
| Summary |
Highly illustrated and artfully researched, the book will draw readers into a unique space in one of New York City's most popular boroughs. The Accidental Playground explores the remarkable landscape created by individuals and small groups who occupied and rebuilt an abandoned Brooklyn waterfront. While local residents, activists, garbage haulers, real estate developers, speculators, and two city administrations fought over the fate of the former Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal (BEDT), others simply took to this decaying edge, transforming it into a unique venue for leisure, creative, and e |
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Print version record |
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Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal.
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Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal fast |
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Recreation -- New York (State) -- New York
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Communities -- New York (State) -- New York
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Waste lands -- Recreational use -- New York (State) -- New York
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Waterfronts -- Recreational use -- New York (State) -- New York
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ARCHITECTURE -- Buildings -- Public, Commercial & Industrial.
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Communities
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Recreation
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Waste lands -- Recreational use
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Waterfronts -- Recreational use
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New York (State) -- New York
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780823251902 |
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082325190X |
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9780823252053 |
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0823252051 |
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