Main entry:

Nordenson, Guy.

Title & Author:

On the water : Palisade Bay / Guy Nordenson, Catherine Seavitt, Adam Yarinksy ; with Stephen Cassell [and others] ; foreword by Michael Oppenheimer ; afterword by Barry Bergdoll.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

Ostfildern, Germany : Hatje Cantz ; New York, N.Y. : Museum of Modern Art, ©2010.

Description:

316 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; 22 cm

Notes:
"Hatje Cantz; MoMA; Princeton University, School of Architecture; Center for Architecture, Urbanism + Infrastructure."
Accompanies the exhibition Rising Currents, Projects for New York's Waterfront, held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 24-Aug. 9, 2010.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-313).
History and context : Origins of the Upper Bay ; Current projects and proposals ; Contemporary urban estuaries -- Analysis : GIS and HAZUS analyses ; Fluid dynamic analysis ; Formal analysis -- Design strategies : Palisade Bay ; Wetlands ; Piers and slips ; Islands ; Generating habitat ; Generating energy ; Generating place -- Harbor zones : Five zones of intervention ; Zone 0: Lower Manhattan -- Edge atlas -- Tools and resources : Harbor catalogue ; Resources.

Summary:

"On the water: Palisade Bay is the collaborative initiative of a group of engineers, architects, landscape architects, planners, and students to imagine a 'soft infrastructure' for the New York-New Jersey Upper Bay by developing interconnected infrastructures and landscapes which rethink the thresholds of water, land, and city."--Page 4 of cover.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

9780870707858
087070785X
9783775725781
3775725784

Subject:

Harbors Design and construction Exhibitions.
Shore protection New York Harbor (N.Y. and N.J.) Exhibitions.
Landscape architecture Climatic factors New York Harbor (N.Y. and N.J.)
Architecture Environmental aspects New York Harbor (N.Y. and N.J.)
Ports Conception et construction Expositions.
Rivage Protection New York, Port de (N.Y. et N.J.) Expositions.
Architecture du paysage Facteurs climatiques New York, Port de (N.Y. et N.J.)
Architecture Aspect de l'environnement New York, Port de (N.Y. et N.J.)
Sustainable architecture Upper Bay (N.Y. and N.J.) Exhibitions.
Water and architecture Upper Bay (N.Y. and N.J.) Exhibitions.
Landscape architecture Upper Bay (N.Y. and N.J.) Exhibitions.
Coastal zone management Upper Bay (N.Y. and N.J.) Exhibitions.
City planning Upper Bay (N.Y. and N.J.) Exhibitions.
Architecture and Planning.
Landscape architecture Climatic factors
Architecture Environmental aspects
Harbors Design and construction
Shore protection
New York Harbor (N.Y. and N.J.) Exhibitions.
New York (N.Y.) Remote-sensing images Exhibitions.
New York, Port de (N.Y. et N.J.) Expositions.
New York (State) New York
United States New York Harbor

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Seavitt Nordenson, Catherine.
Yarinsky, Adam.
Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
Princeton University. Center for Architecture, Urbanism + Infrastructure.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 269786
Call No.: BIB 202182
Status: Available