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

Informationen zum Autor Ann L. Buttenwieser Klappentext "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"-- Inhaltsverzeichnis 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!

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Ann L Buttenwieser, Ann L. Buttenwieser
• Editore: Cornell University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 31.05.2021
• EAN: 9781501716010
• ISBN: 978-1-5017-1601-0
• Pagine: 304
• Categorie: Guide e manuali > Sport > Sport acquatici, vela; Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Geoscienze > Pianificazione urbanistica, territoriale e del paesaggio; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Architettura