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Book West Side Hwy Project  New York

Download or read book West Side Hwy Project New York written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book West Side Hwy Project  New York

Download or read book West Side Hwy Project New York written by and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book West Side Highway Project

Download or read book West Side Highway Project written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Westside Highway Project

Download or read book Westside Highway Project written by West Side Highway Project (N.Y.) and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Frontier New York

Download or read book Frontier New York written by Jan Staller and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is New York as it has never been seen before, tantalizingly balanced on the very edge of familiarity. It is a city unpeopled, bathed in extraordinary light, sometimes at sunset, sometimes dusted with snow. This is New York as a frontier of the unknown, a world of great beauty and private calm.

Book The Big U

    Book Details:
  • Author : Neal Stephenson
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2009-10-13
  • ISBN : 0061847380
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book The Big U written by Neal Stephenson and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times Book Review called Neal Stephenson's most recent novel "electrifying" and "hilarious". but if you want to know Stephenson was doing twenty years before he wrote the epic Cryptonomicon, it's back-to-school time. Back to The Big U, that is, a hilarious send-up of American college life starring after years our of print, The Big U is required reading for anyone interested in the early work of this singular writer.

Book West Side Highway Project Report

Download or read book West Side Highway Project Report written by and published by . This book was released on 1974* with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A View on the Highway

Download or read book A View on the Highway written by Hancock, Little, Calvert, Inc and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Westway Project

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Intergovernmental Relations and Human Resources Subcommittee
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1984
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1578 pages

Download or read book Westway Project written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Intergovernmental Relations and Human Resources Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 1578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book West Side Highway Project   Work Programs for Environmental Studies

Download or read book West Side Highway Project Work Programs for Environmental Studies written by Parsons, Brinckerhoff, Quade and Douglas, Inc and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Route 9A Reconstruction Project  Battery Place to 59th St   New York County

Download or read book Route 9A Reconstruction Project Battery Place to 59th St New York County written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 858 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Proposed Lower Manhattan Crosstown Expressway

Download or read book Proposed Lower Manhattan Crosstown Expressway written by New York. City Construction Co-ordinator and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Movement

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  • Author : Nicole Gelinas
  • Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
  • Release : 2024-11-05
  • ISBN : 1531508235
  • Pages : 619 pages

Download or read book Movement written by Nicole Gelinas and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2024-11-05 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping account of how the automobile has failed NYC and how mass transit and a revitalized streetscape are vital to its post-pandemic recovery In 1969, as all students of New York City history think they have learned, master builder Robert Moses lost his long battle to urbanist Jane Jacobs over his planned Lower Manhattan Expressway. The ten-lane elevated expressway would have sliced across SoHo and Little Italy, demolishing historic buildings, and displacing thousands of families and businesses. Jacobs and her neighbors defeated Moses, and as a result, New York became the only major American city with no interstate highway running through its core. Like many global cities, though, New York had spent fifty years during the first half of the twentieth century trying and failing to tame its heavily populated landscape to fit the private automobile. New York has now spent more than fifty years trying to undo those mistakes, wresting back city space for people, not cars. Movement: New York’s Long War to Take Back Its Streets from the Car chronicles the earlier, less-known battles that preceded the cancellation of the Lower Manhattan Expressway: Jacobs became an example for generations of urban planners, but whose example did Jacobs emulate in an earlier victory that saved Washington Square Park? Moses may serve handily as New York’s uber-villain now, but who, before him, was responsible for destroying a critical part of New York’s transit system? A well respected urban writer who has focused on New York’s transportation system for more than a decade, author Nicole Gelinas resumes the story where Robert Caro’s landmark The Power Broker ended. Movement explores how, in the half-century leading up to the COVID- 19 pandemic, New York’s re-embracement of its mass-transit system and a livable streetscape helped save the city. Gelinas tackles the 1970s environmental movement, the 1980s rebuilding of the subways, and more contemporary battles, from Mayor Bloomberg's push for more pedestrian plazas and bike lanes in the early 2000s, to transportation advocates' protests to prevent traffic deaths in the Mayor de Blasio era of the 2010s, to how New York’s stewardship of its streets and subways have played a critical role during the 2020 pandemic and subsequent recovery. Introducing a cast of transportation heroes to rival Jane Jacobs (Shirley Hayes, Hazel Henderson, Richard Ravitch, Nilka Martell) and puncturing the myth of Moses as New York’s anti-hero, Movement explores how New York City has helped redefine what it means to be a global city: not a place that is easy to drive through, but a place where people can take transit, walk, and bike to work, to school, or just for fun.

Book Highway Focus

Download or read book Highway Focus written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fighting Westway

    Book Details:
  • Author : William W. Buzbee
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2014-04-04
  • ISBN : 0801470293
  • Pages : 312 pages

Download or read book Fighting Westway written by William W. Buzbee and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1971 to 1985, battles raged over Westway, a multibillion-dollar highway, development, and park project slated for placement in New York City. It would have projected far into the Hudson River, including massive new landfill extending several miles along Manhattan’s Lower West Side. The most expensive highway project ever proposed, Westway also provoked one of the highest stakes legal battles of its day. In Fighting Westway, William W. Buzbee reveals how environmentalists, citizens, their lawyers, and a growing opposition coalition, despite enormous resource disparities, were able to defeat this project supported by presidents, senators, governors, and mayors, much of the business community, and most unions. Although Westway’s defeat has been derided as lacking justification, Westway’s critics raised substantial and ultimately decisive objections. They questioned claimed project benefits and advocated trading federal Westway dollars for mass transit improvements. They also exposed illegally disregarded environmental risks, especially to increasingly scarce East Coast young striped bass often found in extraordinarily high numbers right where Westway was to be built. Drawing on archival records and interviews, Buzbee goes beyond the veneer of government actions and court rulings to illuminate the stakes, political pressures, and strategic moves and countermoves that shaped the Westway war, a fight involving all levels and branches of government, scientific conflict, strategic citizen action, and hearings, trials, and appeals in federal court. This Westway history illuminates how high-stakes regulatory battles are fought, the strategies and power of America’s environmental laws, ways urban priorities are contested, the clout of savvy citizen activists and effective lawyers, and how separation of powers and federalism frameworks structure legal and political conflict. Whether readers seek an exciting tale of environmental, political, and legal conflict, to learn what really happened during these battles that transformed New York City, or to understand how modern legal frameworks shape high stakes regulatory wars, Fighting Westway will provide a good read.

Book Reclaiming the Highline

Download or read book Reclaiming the Highline written by and published by . This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: