Battery Park City

Politics and Planning on the New York Waterfront
1. Auflage 1997
ISBN: 978-90-5699-558-4
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 145 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 260 g

Battery Park City in Manhattan has been hailed as a triumph of urban design, and is considered to be one of the success stories of American urban redevelopment planning. The flood of praise for its design, however, can obscure the many lessons from the long struggle to develop the project. Nothing was built on the site for more than a decade after the first master plan was approved, and the redevelopment agency flirted with bankruptcy in 1979.
Taking a practice-oriented approach, the book examines the role of planning and development agencies in implementing urban waterfront redevelopment. It focuses upon the experience of the central actor - the Battery Park City Authority (BPCA) - and includes personal interviews with executives of the BPCA, former New York mayors John Lindsay and Ed Koch, key public officials, planners, and developers. Describing the political, financial, planning, and implementation issues faced by public agencies and private developers from 1962 to 1993, it is both a case study and history of one of the most ambitious examples of urban waterfront redevelopment.

Zielgruppe

Professional Practice & Development

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gordon, David L. A.

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Öffentliches Recht Verwaltungsrecht Verwaltungspraxis Public Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Literatur für Manager
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Öffentlicher Dienst, Öffentlicher Sektor
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management
• Geisteswissenschaften Architektur Städtebau, Stadtplanung (Architektur)
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Regional- & Raumplanung Stadtplanung, Kommunale Planung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Kommunal-, Regional-, und Landesverwaltung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1., Dueling Plans: Proposals for the Lower Hudson Waterfront, 2. Department of Marine and Aviation Plan, 3. Governor Rockefeller's Proposal - Battery Park City, 4. The City and State Negotiate, 5. The 1969 Master Development Plan, 6. Physical Design Cost Estimates, 7. Designating Developers 8. Funding the Authority, 9. Stalling Out: 1972-1979, 10. The Real Estate Market Collapse The New York City Fiscal Crisis, 11. The 1979 Master Plan 12. Building Battery Park City 13. Gateway Plaza 14. The World Financial Center, 15. Public Spaces and Facilities, 16. Issues for the Twenty-First Century, 17. Corporate Structure, 18. Why Battery Park City Matters, 19. The Downtown-Lower Manhattan Association, 20. Plan Implementation, 21. Affordable Housing 22. Recharging Battery Park City: 1979-1982

Über Autor(innen)

David L. A. Gordon