Brooklyn Bridge Park / Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates ; with essays by Julie Bargmann and Amanda Hesser.

Main entry:

Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates, author.

Title & Author:

Brooklyn Bridge Park / Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates ; with essays by Julie Bargmann and Amanda Hesser.

Publication:

New York, New York : The Monacelli Press, a division of Phaidon Press, Inc., [2024]
©2024

Description:

301 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 31 cm

Notes:
Chiefly illustrations.
Before the park -- Designing the park -- Meeting the city -- Places for play -- The Max Family Garden -- Unflattening the site -- The sound berms -- Planting the landscape -- Pier 3 -- The freshwater wetlands -- Remaking the water's edge -- The salt marshes -- Escape in the city.

Summary:

"MVVS's 23-year story of transforming 85 acres of Brooklyn waterfront into parkland that connects New Yorkers to the East River. This book is a visual biography of Brooklyn Bridge Park, which began as a dream of local activists in the 1980s and is now an essential part of the city around it, with over five million visitors each year. With authoritative text by the MVVA design team and over 300 photographs and drawings, the collection reveals the process behind the colossal project and brings the sensory experience of the landscape to life."-- Insert.
"Reclaimed from 1.3 miles of New York's postindustrial waterfront, Brooklyn Bridge Park is a place for escape, recreation, and immersion in the natural world. Transforming parking lots and crumbling piers into a living ecosystem, the project is an exemplar of climate resilience, fiscal innovation, and joyful public space. This book examines MVVA's process of designing a park that went from a remote possibility to an essential part of the city around it."-- Amazon.com.

ISBN:

1580936172
9781580936170

Subject:

Parks New York (State) New York Design and construction.
Brooklyn Bridge Park (New York, N.Y.) Pictorial works.

Form/genre:

Illustrated works.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Bargmann, Julie, writer of foreword.
Hesser, Amanda, writer of afterword.
Van Valkenburgh, Michael, writer of introduction.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 319237
Call No.: 319237
Copy: 1
Status: Available

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