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New York City Places and Spaces

Collected by: Columbia University Libraries

Archived since: Jan, 2010

Description:

A growing collection of websites selected by the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library staff for web archiving preservation by the Columbia University Libraries' Web Resources Collection Program. Website captures began in 2010 and are ongoing; in 2020, to reflect the collection's evolving subject focus, the collection title was changed to 'New York City Places and Spaces' (from the original 'Avery Library Historic Preservation and Urban Planning'). The collection's principal thematic focus is documenting the evolution of the built environment and public spaces in and around New York City through the interaction of historic preservation efforts and new development projects within urban planning debates. Selected websites are mostly published by non-profit groups or individuals based in the New York City area, including historic preservation groups, neighborhood associations, community development groups, public policy organizations, parks and open space conservancies, and both sponsors and critics of ongoing development projects.

Subject:   Arts & Humanities Government - Cities Society & Culture Community development Public spaces,  Parks ,  City planning ,  Historic preservation Architecture

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Title: Atlanta BeltLine

URL: http://beltline.org/

Description: "The Atlanta BeltLine is the most comprehensive transportation and economic development effort ever undertaken in the City of Atlanta and among the largest, most wide-ranging urban redevelopment programs currently underway in the United States. The Atlanta BeltLine is a sustainable redevelopment project that will provide a network of public parks, multi-use trails and transit along a historic 22-mile railroad corridor circling downtown and connecting many neighborhoods directly to each other."

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Subject:   Transportation Trails,  City planning ,  Sustainable development,  Parks

Title: BQ Green, BQGreen

URL: http://bqgreen.org/

Description: "BQGreen will create a 'park out of thin air' by extending a concrete platform over a portion of the BQE expressway that runs below the street level in Williamsburg, Brooklyn between S. Third and S. Fifth Streets. BQGreen will integrate Marcy Green and Rodney Park, two existing parks which currently are adjacent to the expressway. The design for the new park calls for 3.5-acres of open space with a flower garden, a playground, a baseball diamond, barbecues, grassy and wooded areas, an indoor pool and a water play zone."

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Subject:   City planning ,  Parks

Title: Stuyvesant Cove Park Association

URL: http://stuyvesantcove.org/

Description: "The SCPA is committed to bringing people of all ages to the park and presents free programming open to all during the summer season. The SCPA has also provided financial support to Solar 1, the organization contracted to manage and maintain the park."

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Subject:   Stuyvesant Cove (New York, N.Y.),  City planning ,  Parks ,  Waterfronts

Title: The Lowline

URL: http://thelowline.org/

Description: The Lowline aims to convert a historic trolley terminal beneath Delancey Street into an extraordinary subterranean public park.

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Subject:   Parks ,  City planning

Title: Los Angeles River revitalization

URL: http://www.lariver.org/

Description: City of Los Angeles's Revitalization Master Plan for the river is "a plan aimed at enhancing existing communities by creating a safe environment with more open space, parks, trails, recreation, environmental restoration, riverfront living and commerce, new jobs, neighborhood identity, economic development, tourism, and civic pride."

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Subject:   Waterfronts,  City planning ,  Sustainable development,  Parks

Title: Maker Park

URL: http://www.maker-park.org/

Description: "We envision an adaptive reuse park that captures the eclectic vibrancy of Williamsburg, Brooklyn and honors its history by breathing new life into the site's rich industrial fabric. The idea for Maker Park springs from an awareness that our waterfront heritage is being wiped away at alarming speed and the fact that parks have the potential to be more than one-dimensional green spaces. Maker Park is posed to achieve the acute community need for green open space while also serving as a dynamic, interactive and educational public space that unites a neighborhood."

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Subject:   Parks ,  Land use Bayside Oil Depot (New York, N.Y.),  City planning

Title: Eastern Queens Greenway

URL: https://easternqueensgreenway.com/

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Subject:   Greenways,  Parks ,  City planning ,  Queens (New York, N.Y.)

Title: Randall's Island Park Alliance

URL: https://randallsisland.org/

Description: "The Randall’s Island Park Alliance, Inc. (RIPA) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that works with the City of New York and local communities to provide an innovative and exciting destination through a wide range of sports venues, cultural events and environmental exploration. As the dedicated steward of Randall’s Island Park, the Alliance sustains, maintains, develops and programs the Park to support the wellbeing of all New Yorkers."

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Subject:   City planning ,  Parks

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