Overview
Offers a highly detailed examination of New York's urban renewal efforts, in planning and in practice
Historical material connects the science of urban planning to the lives of residents
Details the advent and application of contemporary frameworks for sustainable urban planning
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Brooklyn’s Bushwick - Urban Renewal in New York, USA
Book Subtitle: Community, Planning and Sustainable Environments
Authors: Raymond Charles Rauscher, Salim Momtaz
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05762-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-05761-3Published: 19 May 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-38121-3Published: 17 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-05762-0Published: 05 May 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVIII, 150
Number of Illustrations: 33 b/w illustrations, 34 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Development, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Cities, Countries, Regions, Migration, Physical Geography, Urbanism