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Gateway : visions for an urban national park / Alexander Brash, Jamie Hand, Kate Orff, editors.
Fine Arts Library F128.65.G38 G38 2011
Available
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Natural areas--Public use.
- National parks and reserves--Public use.
- Gateway National Recreation Area (N.J. and N.Y.)--Environmental conditions.
- Gateway National Recreation Area (N.J. and N.Y.).
- Gateway National Recreation Area (N.J. and N.Y.)--Management.
- National parks and reserves--Public use--Gateway National Recreation Area (N.J. and N.Y.).
- National parks and reserves.
- Natural areas--Public use--Gateway National Recreation Area (N.J. and N.Y.).
- Natural areas.
- Physical Description:
- 221 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (chiefly color) ; 29 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Princeton Architectural Press, [2011]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781568989556
- 1568989555
- OCLC:
- 664674764
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