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Record Nr.

UNINA9910298366003321

Autore

Rauscher Raymond Charles

Titolo

Brooklyn’s Bushwick - Urban Renewal in New York, USA : Community, Planning and Sustainable Environments / / by Raymond Charles Rauscher, Salim Momtaz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2014

ISBN

3-319-05762-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2014.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (175 p.)

Disciplina

304.8

307.34160974723

333.7

338.927

Soggetti

Sustainable development

Regional planning

Urban planning

Architecture

Emigration and immigration

Physical geography

City planning

Sustainable Development

Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning

Cities, Countries, Regions

Migration

Physical Geography

Urbanism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1: Bushwick and Northeast Brooklyn: Formative Years to 1960's -- Chapter 2: Bushwick: Planning in 1970s to Current Times -- Chapter 3: Planning for Sustainable Communities -- Chapter 4. New York City Planning: Community Boards and Planning Instruments -- Chapter 5.



Application of Planning Instruments: Case Studies -- Chapter 6. Preparing Students for Urban Futures: Case Example Bushwick -- Chapter 7. Future Directions: Sustainable Urban Planning (SUP) -- Appendices -- Post Script -- Glossary -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers an extended case study of the urban community of Bushwick, located in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. The authors begin with a broad review of the history of Bushwick and Brooklyn, from before the earliest European settlements of the 1600s, through the 18th and 19th centuries and up the 1960s. Chapter Two begins by tracing the steep decline of the community, which culminated in catastrophic fires and looting in the wake of New York’s electrical blackout of 1977, and goes on to describe the beginnings of urban planning and renewal efforts which launched the recovery of Bushwick in the 1980s to early 2000s. Chapter Three steps back from the immediacy of the community to discuss urban change from a theoretical perspective. The authors outline advances in ‘sustainable urban planning’, and describe how these apply to Bushwick and the wider Brooklyn community. Chapter Four offers a detailed examination of the intent and function of New York’s community board planning system, known as the Charter 197-a program. In Chapter Five the authors examine the 197-a planning process and its application in the areas of Bushwick, Williamsburg and Greenpoint in Northeast Brooklyn; Brooklyn Downtown and in Southeast Brooklyn including Coney Island.  The following chapter examines a number of innovative Bushwick high schools that offer practical experience in urban planning. Drawing the urban planning experiences together, the book concludes with a look at future directions in city renewal. Emphasis here is placed on ‘sustainable urban planning’ and the lessons to be learned from the experience of Bushwick and Brooklyn. The specifics of urban planning and renewal are illustrated with tables and figures. The details of planning are informed by an overarching sense of history, beginning with the dedication of the book to the memory of six Universalist writers associated with New York: Henry Thoreau, Helena Blavatsky, Henry George, Henry Miller, Arthur Miller and Walt Whitman. A rich trove of historical materials, ranging from family sketches to school rosters to rarely seen photographs, helps to keep the survey and analysis of urban planning grounded in the lives of Bushwick’s residents, past, present and future.