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Before September 11, 2001, New York City was in the process of transforming its waterfront after decades of neglect. The tragic events of that day brought into sharper focus the issue surrounding the development of the water's edge, along with a host of more complicated issues involving monuments and icons, public space and public safety, reconstruction and renewal. Will New York's future waterfront development be ruled only by issues of economic necessity, infrastructure, and politics, or can it embrace innovative design as well? Raymond W. Gastil, director of the Van Alen Institute, an organization dedicated to improving the design of the public realm, makes a case for the importance of inspired design in the redevelopment of Manhattan's waterfront. Gastil's detailed analysis of current design proposals is set against the backdrop of the city's history, its public process, and its ecological priorities and is informed by interviews with project architects and other key players. Taking as points of reference the recent reinvigoration of London, Amsterdam, Barcelona, and Bilbao-all cities with high-profile waterfronts, where designers, landscape architects, and artists have been instrumental in creating memorable buildings, parks, and spaces-Gastil proposes an approach to the redevelopment of New York's waterfront that is as visionary as it is pragmatic.
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Must reading on public life.......2003-08-06
Raymond Gastil has written an elegant, comprehensive account of the New York waterfront, but the significance of his book reaches far beyond that particular edge, into the very essence of the contemporary public realm. Gastil argues that the waterfront is "the paradigmatic site for the future of public life," a case he makes convincingly by reference to the history of modern urban development and detailed case studies from New York. Drawing on his extensive experience in the public realm (as author, designer, scholar, and public intellectual), Gastil provides the reader with an overview of past and recent attempts to recreate the New York waterfront, as well as examples from across the world.
The importance of this book lies in Gastil's ability to use the example of New York's waterfront to pose questions and draw broader conclusions about global urban issues and the very nature of the public realm today. I believe his deep insights into the current condition of our communities, the environment and public life in the early twentieth century will reward any reader.
A terrific overview of waterfront development.......2003-05-30
Now that the iceberg of industry has receded from our urban waterfronts, cities around the world confront the question of what to do with their riverfronts and coastlines. Ray Gastil's book Beyond the Edge offers a wealth of ideas about this. Because of his position as the executive director of New York's Van Alen Institute, which focuses on the design of the public realm, Ray Gastil is particularly well suited to talk about the waterfront proposals for New York. His writing is concise, the information ample, and the range of projects he covers extremely wide. For any community or designer looking for ideas on what they might do with their waterfront, this book will serve as a valuable sourcebook. The book also examines projects in other cities, providing an important cross-cultural comparison and suggesting that New York, while admirable in all that it has done along its waterfront, does not have all of the answers.
You can't always judge a book by its cover, but you can this one. It has a very clever book jacket that unfolds to become a map of New York, showing the locations of the projects discussed within. A glimpse of the cover photo through a gap in the book jacket also creatively draws you in and, like the briskly paced prose, leaves you wanting to read on.
I highly recommend the book and I know of no other that covers this subject so thoroughly and in such an engaging manner. If I have one criticism, it is that there are not enough photographs or drawings of many of the projects. One photograph often cannot adequately convey, visually, a large urban-design or architectural proposal, and while the author's descriptions compensate for that lack of documentation somewhat, words can only go so far. But the relative dearth of photos, combined with the map in the book jacket, do send a clear message: if you are going to understand waterfront development, you need to pack up the book and, with it in hand, go see these places for youself. You will see why the careful design and development of our waterfronts is one of the major opportunities many cities now have to improve the quality of life in their communities.
Beyond the Edge: New York's New Waterfront.......2003-05-07
For all its romantic history as a great port, not to mention its hundreds of miles of shoreline, New York is barely known today as a waterfront city. But after reading "Beyond the Edge: New York's New Waterfront" by Raymond W. Gastil, you'll be convinced that New York's future is on its waterfront. Gastil confronts the city's post-industrial malaise and demonstrates that after decades of shoreline deterioration, New York is on the verge of becoming a "dynamic waterfront metropolis." The book, which covers an array of exciting developments in all five boroughs--not just buildings, but also parks, ferry connections, water treatment plants and even the restoration of the world's largest garbage dump--is the most complete and up-to-date picture of change and opportunity on the New York watefront. At the same time, the book is much more than a survey or an architectural showcase of pretty pictures. It is above all a book of big ideas. As a participant in many New York projects and a writer/historian of the Brooklyn waterfront, I particularly appreciate Gastil's far-reaching scope and intelligent, well-informed analysis. With both a keen sense of local history and an international perspective, he describes cutting-edge projects in other world-class waterfront cities and sets the same high goals for New York. He sees the waterfront as an extension of the vital city, a place not just for high-rise housing, but as an integrated part of the urban infrastructure. Whether rebuilding Ground Zero or planning new sports facilities for the Olympics, New York should "celebrate its infrastructure," he maintains, with designs that challenge expectations and connect the waterfront to the city. And while the book is an argument for good planning, Gastil does not rest his case on abstractions. His prose is as clear and sharp as the book's striking photographs and graphic design. Even the cover jacket tells the story, reversing to a map of the New York waterfront with pullout photos of major projects. This is a book for everyone--a practical, visionary and inspiring guide to the city's future.
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Title: Beyond the Edge: New York's New Waterfront. (Books: Urban Design).(Book Review)
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Title: Power and Politics at the Seaside: the Development of Devon's Resorts in the Twentieth Century. (Reviews of Books).
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Three Masquerades: Essays on Politics, Work and Equality
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Looking behind the mask.......2005-11-28
Marilyn Waring is a political scientist who served three terms (1975-84) in Parliament in New Zealand and then turned to farming. This book follows her If Women Counted: A New Feminist Economics by about eight years. Waring's essays on POLITICS and HUMAN RIGHTS in Three Masquerades are absorbing, but what blew me away was her essay on WORK, which begins with Waring taking buckets of manure to friends for Christmas, because she has nothing else to give. It proceeds rapidly to a summary of her earlier work on the UN System of National Accounts and the policy implications of its "production boundaries" (alone worth the price of the book), goes on to describe attempts by international labor and other organizations to expand the ways in which value is assigned to work, and finally (the unmasking) comes up against old-fashioned impermeable barriers of hypocricy and sexism. Three Masquerades includes four useful appendices: three international covenants concerning human rights, and an appendix on the structure of the United Nations.
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The Black Worker: Race, Labor, and Civil Rights Since Emancipation
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Essays on the Economics of Discrimination
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Is Anyone Listening?: Women, Work, and Society
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Jacobs has brought together the work of a number of progressive feminist writers who theorize gender, race, diversity research, the social construction of women and work, ethnicity and class. The essays in this reader are focused on issues relating to gender equality in workspaces in society. The editor has gathered essays from well-known and established social scientists. Among them are Pat and Hugh Armstrong, Himani Bannerji, Chris Bruckert, and Tania Das Gupta. The result is a stimulating collection that focuses on health-care workers, teachers, strippers, wageless workers and women who are "hidden from view." The collection explores the construction of gender, the selection of careers and the differential in work conditions and wages.
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Networking Europe: Essays on Regionalism and Social Democracy (Liverpool University Press - Studies in European Regional Cultures)
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Based on papers given at annual symposia held at Freudenstadt throughout the 1990s, this book contributes to a view of the future of the European Union that stresses the need for more democracy and for a conception of Europe that emphasizes its diversity. A wide range of issues are explored: inter-regional partnerships; working-class experience in the regions; questions of heritage and identity; European policies such as the Social Chapter and the Single Market; women’s work and life; and issues stemming from racism such as the integration of refugees.
"The book is a rich mine of information and ideas... essays which collectively have a good balance of theory and empiricism, and individually sustain interest more than enough to make the reader wish to have been there to hear them delivered in their original form."—Regional and Federal Studies
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A visionary discourse.......2003-09-11
Volume 11 of the collected works of James M. Buchanan, Politics By Principle, Not Interest: Toward Nondiscriminatory Democracy is a visionary discourse of the often unfair means by which politics shapes human affairs, and ways to improve the system so that it better and more accurately represents the needs of humanity. Discussing the strengths and weaknesses of majoritarian democracy, the political efficiency of general taxation, the generality without uniformity that is federalism and much more, Politics By Principle, Not Interest (collaboratively edited by Buchanan and Roger D. Congleton) is thought-provoking contribution to Political Science Studies and very highly recommended reading.
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