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Book The Flushing Meadow Improvement

Download or read book The Flushing Meadow Improvement written by and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book New York Recentered

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  • Author : Kara Murphy Schlichting
  • Publisher : University of Chicago Press
  • Release : 2019-04-23
  • ISBN : 022661302X
  • Pages : 329 pages

Download or read book New York Recentered written by Kara Murphy Schlichting and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The history of New York City’s urban development often centers on titanic municipal figures like Robert Moses and on prominent inner Manhattan sites like Central Park. New York Recentered boldly shifts the focus to the city’s geographic edges—the coastlines and waterways—and to the small-time unelected locals who quietly shaped the modern city. Kara Murphy Schlichting details how the vernacular planning done by small businessmen and real estate operators, performed independently of large scale governmental efforts, refigured marginal locales like Flushing Meadows and the shores of Long Island Sound and the East River in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The result is a synthesis of planning history, environmental history, and urban history that recasts the story of New York as we know it.

Book Planning United STates Paricipation in the New York World s Fair

Download or read book Planning United STates Paricipation in the New York World s Fair written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fresh Kills

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  • Author : Martin V. Melosi
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2020-01-28
  • ISBN : 0231548354
  • Pages : 576 pages

Download or read book Fresh Kills written by Martin V. Melosi and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh Kills—a monumental 2,200-acre site on Staten Island—was once the world’s largest landfill. From 1948 to 2001, it was the main receptacle for New York City’s refuse. After the 9/11 attacks, it reopened briefly to receive human remains and rubble from the destroyed Twin Towers, turning a notorious disposal site into a cemetery. Today, a mammoth reclamation project is transforming the landfill site, constructing an expansive park three times the size of Central Park. Martin V. Melosi provides a comprehensive chronicle of Fresh Kills that offers new insights into the growth and development of New York City and the relationship among consumption, waste, and disposal. He traces the metamorphoses of the landscape, following it from salt marsh to landfill to cemetery and looks ahead to the future park. By centering the problem of solid-waste disposal, Melosi highlights the unwanted consequences of mass consumption. He presents the Fresh Kills space as an embodiment of massive waste, linking consumption to the continuing presence of its discards. Melosi also uses the landfill as a lens for understanding Staten Island’s history and its relationship with greater New York City. The first book on the history of the iconic landfill, Fresh Kills unites environmental, political, and cultural history to offer a reflection on material culture, consumer practices, and perceptions of value and worthlessness.

Book Supplemental Appropriation Bill for 1962

Download or read book Supplemental Appropriation Bill for 1962 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 1442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hearings

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  • Author : United States. Congress Senate
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1962
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1920 pages

Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress Senate and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 1920 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Supplemental Appropriation Bill for 1962  Hearings Before     87 1  on H R  9169

Download or read book Supplemental Appropriation Bill for 1962 Hearings Before 87 1 on H R 9169 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Appropriations Committee and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 842 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Congressional Record

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  • Author : United States. Congress
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1961
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1238 pages

Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 1238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Congressional Record is the official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. The Congressional Record began publication in 1873. Debates for sessions prior to 1873 are recorded in The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States (1789-1824), the Register of Debates in Congress (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873)

Book Long Island Expressway Improvement  Queens County

Download or read book Long Island Expressway Improvement Queens County written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gotham Unbound

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  • Author : Theodore Steinberg
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2014-06-03
  • ISBN : 1476741247
  • Pages : 544 pages

Download or read book Gotham Unbound written by Theodore Steinberg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the history of New York City as it was transformed over a four-hundred-year period by politicians and developers from a Hudson River estuary with rolling hills, rivers, and forests into the concrete flatland that exists today.

Book Safety at Sea

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  • Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1937
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1186 pages

Download or read book Safety at Sea written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 1186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Site of New York World s Fair  1939

Download or read book Site of New York World s Fair 1939 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers (75) S.J. Res. 62.

Book Port of New York Annual

Download or read book Port of New York Annual written by Alexander Rogers Smith and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Port of New York Annual

Download or read book Port of New York Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hidden Waters of New York City  A History and Guide to 101 Forgotten Lakes  Ponds  Creeks  and Streams in the Five Boroughs

Download or read book Hidden Waters of New York City A History and Guide to 101 Forgotten Lakes Ponds Creeks and Streams in the Five Boroughs written by Sergey Kadinsky and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the forgotten waterways hidden throughout the five boroughs Beneath the asphalt streets of Manhattan, creeks and streams once flowed freely. The remnants of these once-pristine waterways are all over the Big Apple, hidden in plain sight. Hidden Waters of New York City offers a glimpse at the big city’s forgotten past and ever-changing present, including: Minetta Brook, which ran through today's Greenwich Village Collect Pond in the Financial District, the city's first water source Newtown Creek, separating Brooklyn and Queens Bronx River, still a hotspot for urban canoeing and hiking Filled with eye-opening historical anecdotes and walking tours of all five boroughs, this is a side of New York City you’ve never seen.