Title & Author:

Gateway : visions for an urban national park / Alexander Brash, Jamie Hand, Kate Orff, editors.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : Princeton Architectural Press, ©2011.

Description:

221 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction : an urban national park -- The place : Gateway, between the city and the sea / Laura McPhee -- Essays. Cosmopolitan ecologies / Kate Orff ; The unique values of our national parks / Alexander Brash ; Two gateways : the first U.S. urban national parks / Ethan Carr -- The process : Establishing a design framework for Gateway / Jamie Hand -- Site research and design proposals. Who goes there? : Honorable mention : Urban barometer / PORT Architecture + Urbanism ; So near, yet so far : Honorable mention : [Un]natural selection / W Architecture and Landscape Architecture ; Shifting ground : First prize : Mapping the ecotone / Urban Found Architecture ; Eco-harbor : Second prize : Reassembling ecologies / North Design Office ; Down in the dumps : Honorable mention : H2grOw / EFGH ; Past as prologue : Third prize : Landmarks, seamarks, ciphers / Virginia Polytechnic -- Reflections. The urban park as cultural catalyst / Rolf Diamant ; Coping with complexity / Christopher Hawthorne ; Civic life in the making / Adi Shamir -- Afterword : A vision for park planning and design / Stephanie Toothman.

Summary:

"Gateway National Recreation Area is one of the most diverse and underused parks in the national park system. Spreading across the coastline of Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and New Jersey, it includes wildlife estuaries, bird-nesting areas, salt marshes, historic military forts, beaches, and NYC's first municipal airport, to name just a few of its exceptional features. It also contains sewage treatment plants, sewer outfalls, landfills, and acres upon acres of "black mayonnaise." Due to neglect and misuse, this extraordinary natural and national resource is at risk. Ninety percent of the salt marshes in Jamaica Bay--one of the most biologically productive habitats in the region--will have disappeared by 2011. This book presents the collaborative efforts of the Van Alan Institute, the National Parks Conservation Association, and Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation to investigate and document the diverse ecology of the park and re-envision a more sustainable future for it"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781568989556 (hardback)
1568989555 (hardback)

Subject:

National parks and reserves Public use Gateway National Recreation Area (N.J. and N.Y.)
Natural areas Public use Gateway National Recreation Area (N.J. and N.Y.)
Parcs nationaux Fréquentation Gateway National Recreation Area (N.J. et N.Y.)
Réserves naturelles Fréquentation Gateway National Recreation Area (N.J. et N.Y.)
ARCHITECTURE Criticism.
Ecology.
Management.
National parks and reserves Public use.
Natural areas Public use.
Gateway National Recreation Area (N.J. and N.Y.) Environmental conditions.
Gateway National Recreation Area (N.J. and N.Y.) Management.
Gateway National Recreation Area (N.J. et N.Y.) Conditions environnementales.
Gateway National Recreation Area (N.J. et N.Y.) Gestion.
United States Gateway National Recreation Area.

Added entries:

Brash, Alexander, 1958-
Hand, Jamie, 1978-
Orff, Kate, 1971-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 277091
Call No.: BIB 211744
Status: Available