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"Superbly designed for economic development professionals [and] urban design and planning firms." -- Mitchell L. Moss of New York University
Superbly designed for economic development professionals [and] urban design and planning firms. - Mitchell L. Moss, New York University
Gordon argues that Battery Park City is a remarkably successful urban development project, and that its implemented plan, prepared largely by Cooper Eckstut Associates, was an admiral combination of postmodern and new urbanist development. - Journal of American Planning Association
Superbly designed for economic development professionals [and] urban design and planning firms. - Mitchell L. Moss, New York University
Gordon argues that Battery Park City is a remarkably successful urban development project, and that its implemented plan, prepared largely by Cooper Eckstut Associates, was an admiral combination of postmodern and new urbanist development. - Journal of American Planning Association
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Battery Park City in Manhattan has been hailed as a triumph of urban design, and is considered to be one of the success stories of American urban redevelopment planning. The flood of praise for its design, however, can obscure the many lessons from the long struggle to develop the project. Nothing was built on the site for more than a decade after the first master plan was approved, and the redevelopment agency flirted with bankruptcy in 1979.
Taking a practice-oriented approach, the book examines the role of planning and development agencies in implementing urban waterfront redevelopment. It focuses upon the experience of the central actor - the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) - and includes personal interviews with executives of the BPCA, former New York mayors John Lindsay and Ed Koch, key public officials, planners, and developers. Describing the political, financial, planning, and implementation issues faced by public agencies and private developers from 1962 to 1993, it is both a
Taking a practice-oriented approach, the book examines the role of planning and development agencies in implementing urban waterfront redevelopment. It focuses upon the experience of the central actor - the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) - and includes personal interviews with executives of the BPCA, former New York mayors John Lindsay and Ed Koch, key public officials, planners, and developers. Describing the political, financial, planning, and implementation issues faced by public agencies and private developers from 1962 to 1993, it is both a
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Once it became obvious that the piers on the lower Hudson River were ripe for redevelopment, there was a scramble to initiate the project. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
physical design concept, master development plan, waterfront plan, urban design guidelines, north neighborhood, building parcels, waterfront redevelopment Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Battery Park City, New York, Nelson Rockefeller, Richard Kahan, City Planning Commission, Hudson River, Master Lease, East River, World Financial Center, Board of Estimate, David Rockefeller, Gateway Plaza, Rector Place, John Lindsay, Stanton Eckstut, Ada Louise Huxtable, Charles Urstadt, Cooper Eckstut, Governor Rockefeller, Philip Johnson, Manhattan Landing, Battery Place, Cesar Pelli, City Hall, Rockefeller Center New!
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Once it became obvious that the piers on the lower Hudson River were ripe for redevelopment, there was a scramble to initiate the project. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
physical design concept, master development plan, waterfront plan, urban design guidelines, north neighborhood, building parcels, waterfront redevelopment Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Battery Park City, New York, Nelson Rockefeller, Richard Kahan, City Planning Commission, Hudson River, Master Lease, East River, World Financial Center, Board of Estimate, David Rockefeller, Gateway Plaza, Rector Place, John Lindsay, Stanton Eckstut, Ada Louise Huxtable, Charles Urstadt, Cooper Eckstut, Governor Rockefeller, Philip Johnson, Manhattan Landing, Battery Place, Cesar Pelli, City Hall, Rockefeller Center New!
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