On the water : Palisade Bay / Guy Nordenson, Catherine Seavitt, Adam Yarinksy ; with Stephen Cassell [and others] ; foreword by Michael Oppenheimer ; afterword by Barry Bergdoll
"Hatje Cantz; MoMA; Princeton University, School of Architecture; Center for Architecture, Urbanism + Infrastructure."
Accompanies the exhibition Rising Currents, Projects for New York's Waterfront, held at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 24-Aug. 9, 2010.
Contents:
History and context : Origins of the Upper Bay ; Current projects and proposals ; Contemporary urban estuaries -- Analysis : GIS and HAZUS analyses ; Fluid dynamic analysis ; Formal analysis -- Design strategies : Palisade Bay ; Wetlands ; Piers and slips ; Islands ; Generating habitat ; Generating energy ; Generating place -- Harbor zones : Five zones of intervention ; Zone 0: Lower Manhattan -- Edge atlas -- Tools and resources : Harbor catalogue ; Resources
Summary:
"On the water: Palisade Bay is the collaborative initiative of a group of engineers, architects, landscape architects, planners, and students to imagine a 'soft infrastructure' for the New York-New Jersey Upper Bay by developing interconnected infrastructures and landscapes which rethink the thresholds of water, land, and city."--Page 4 of cover.
