Floating Pool Lady - A Quest to Bring a Public Pool to New York City''s Waterfront

"Waterfront planner, urban historian, and parks advocate Ann Buttenwieser looked to New York City's nineteenth-century past to find inspiration for a floating pool that would bring New Yorkers back to their waterfront and give them the experience of swimming in water on water"--

List of contents

Prologue: Swim, Annie, Swim!

1. Fire and Water

2. The Eureka Moment

3. Waterfront in Despair

4. Hoboken Ho

5. Finding the C500

6. Contracts and Crawfish

7. Kafka on the Pier

8. Perspective Matters

9. The Orwellian Bureaucracy

10. The Big Jump

11. The Lady Moves to the Bronx

Epilogue: Swim, New York City's Children, Swim!

About the author

Ann L. Buttenwieser is an urban planner and urban historian. She has taught at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University and at the Macaulay Honors College at the City University of New York. She is the author of Governors Island and Manhattan Water-Bound.

Product details

• Authors: Ann L Buttenwieser, Ann L. Buttenwieser
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9781501716010
• ISBN: 978-1-5017-1601-0
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Guides > Sport > Water sport, sailing; Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Urban, spatial and country planning