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28%OFFNancy Webster - A History of Brooklyn Bridge Park: How a Community Reclaimed and Transformed New York City´s Waterfront - 9780231171229 - V9780231171229
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A History of Brooklyn Bridge Park: How a Community Reclaimed and Transformed New York City´s Waterfront

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Description for A History of Brooklyn Bridge Park: How a Community Reclaimed and Transformed New York City´s Waterfront Hardback. Num Pages: 256 pages, Color insert and b&w photographs throughout. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; HBJK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 191 x 263 x 24. Weight in Grams: 688.
By the 1970s, the Brooklyn piers had become a wasteland on the New York City waterfront. Today, they have been transformed into a stunning park that is enjoyed by countless Brooklynites and visitors from across New York City and around the world. A History of Brooklyn Bridge Park recounts the grassroots, multivoiced, and contentious effort, beginning in the 1980s, to transform Brooklyn's defunct piers into a beautiful, urban oasis. The movement to resist commercial development on the piers reveals how concerned citizens came together to shape the future of their community. After winning a number of battles, park advocates, stakeholders, ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231171229
SKU
V9780231171229
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About Nancy Webster
Nancy Webster is the executive director of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy. David Shirley is a journalist whose work has appeared in Oxford American, the Brooklyn Rail, Chicago Review, Spin, Rolling Stone, and USA Today.

Reviews for A History of Brooklyn Bridge Park: How a Community Reclaimed and Transformed New York City´s Waterfront
Almost any leisurely walk in New York will produce the question: What was this place once? A History of Brooklyn Bridge Park tells the amazing story of the people who also asked about such a place: What could it be someday? The answer changed the New York City waterfront forever.
John Hockenberry, host of the public radio program The ... Read more

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