Rising Currents: Projects for New York's Waterfront

Barry Bergdoll; Michael Oppenheimer; Guy Nordenson

ISBN 10: 0870708074 / ISBN 13: 9780870708077

Editore: Museum of Modern Art, 2011

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Riassunto:

In the fall of 2009, The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 selected five interdisciplinary teams of architects, engineers and landscape designers to propose solutions to the effects of climate change on New York's waterfront. The resulting proposals, exhibited at MoMA in 2010 in the exhibition Rising Currents: Projects for New York's Waterfront, emphasize "soft" infrastructure interventions that would make New York City and its surrounding areas more ecologically sound and more resilient in responding torising sea levels and storm surges. These innovative projects include the creation of salt- and freshwater wetlands, a Venice-like aqueous landscape, habitable piers and man-made islands, and a protective reef of living oysters. Published to document theexhibition, Rising Currents: Projects for New York's Waterfront presents these five projects in detail through essays that summarize the innovative workshop and exhibition, the dialogues they engendered with outside experts and political figures involvedin regional planning, and the climate change and urban planning implications of the proposed solutions.

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Titolo: Rising Currents: Projects for New York's ...
Casa editrice: Museum of Modern Art
Data di pubblicazione: 2011
Legatura: Paperback
Condizione: Good
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