On the Water : Palisade Bay / Guy Nordenson, Catherine Seavitt, Adam Yarinsky.

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Book
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English
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Ostifidern : Hatje Cantz ; New York : Museum of Modern Art distributed in the United States and Canada by DAP, 2010.
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316 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

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      Summary note
      This project is the initiative of a group of engineers, architects, planners, professors, and students to imagine a "soft infrastructure" for the New York-New Jersey Upper Bay by developing the interconnected infrastructures and landscapes which rethink the thresholds of water, land, and city. Three objectives summarize the strategies developed: Construction of an archipelago of islands and reefs along the shallow shoals of the New York-New Jersey Upper Bay to dampen powerful storm currents as well as encourage the development of new estuarial habitats; revitalization of the waterfront by designing a broad, porous, "fingered" coastline which combines tidal marshes, parks, and piers for recreation and community development; and enacting zoning formulae that adapt efficiently in response to the impact of storms in order to increase community resilience to future natural disasters. These three principles--on the water, along the coast, and in the communities--comprise a proposal for a coastal planning strategy which seeks not only to protect the New York-New Jersey region from sea level rise and storm surge flooding, but also to re-conceptualize the relationship between infrastructure and ecology in the twenty-first century waterfront city. http://www.nordenson.com/project.php?l=name&offset=795&id=116.
      Notes
      The publication of this book coincides with the exhibition, Rising Currents: Projects for New York's Waterfront, The Museum of Modern Art, New York March 24, 2010-August 9, 2010.
      Bibliographic references
      Includes bibliographical references.
      Contents
      • Introduction
      • History and context: Origins of the Upper Bay
      • Current projects and proposals
      • Contemporary urban estuaries
      • Analysis: GIS and HAZUS analyses
      • Fluid dynamic analysis
      • Formal analysis
      • Design strategies: Palisade Bay
      • Wetlands
      • Piers and slips
      • Islands
      • Generating Habitat
      • Generating energy
      • Generating place
      • Edge atlas
      • Tools and resources: Harbor catalogue
      • Resources.
      Other title(s)
      Palisade Bay
      ISBN
      • 9780870707858
      • 087070785X
      • 9783775725781
      • 3775725784
      OCLC
      607086593
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