Gateway: Visions for an Urban National Park [Hardcover]

Alexander Brash (Editor), Jamie Hand (Editor), Kate Orff (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 28, 2011

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 Alen 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.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 224 pages
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press (September 28, 2011)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1568989555
• ISBN-13: 978-1568989556
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 0.9 x 9.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #498,205 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Kate Orff is an Assistant Professor at the Columbia Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation and is a registered landscape architect. She is the founder of SCAPE, an urban design and landscape architecture studio based in Manhattan. Kate was born in Crofton, Maryland and lives in Forest Hills, New York with her husband and two children.