Learning from Hurricane Sandy in Southern Manhattan - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Learning from Hurricane Sandy in Southern Manhattan write by Shanika Dinethi Hettige. This book was released on 2014. Learning from Hurricane Sandy in Southern Manhattan available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Big U
The Big U - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Big U write by Neal Stephenson. This book was released on 2009-10-13. The Big U available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The New York Times Book Review called Neal Stephenson's most recent novel "electrifying" and "hilarious". but if you want to know Stephenson was doing twenty years before he wrote the epic Cryptonomicon, it's back-to-school time. Back to The Big U, that is, a hilarious send-up of American college life starring after years our of print, The Big U is required reading for anyone interested in the early work of this singular writer.
Gotham Unbound
Gotham Unbound - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gotham Unbound write by Ted Steinberg. This book was released on 2014-06-03. Gotham Unbound available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the 2015 PROSE Award for US History A “fascinating, encyclopedic history…of greater New York City through an ecological lens” (Publishers Weekly, starred review)—the sweeping story of one of the most man-made spots on earth. Gotham Unbound recounts the four-century history of how hundreds of square miles of open marshlands became home to six percent of the nation’s population. Ted Steinberg brings a vanished New York back to vivid, rich life. You will see the metropolitan area anew, not just as a dense urban goliath but as an estuary once home to miles of oyster reefs, wolves, whales, and blueberry bogs. That world gave way to an onslaught managed by thousands, from Governor John Montgomerie, who turned water into land, and John Randel, who imposed a grid on Manhattan, to Robert Moses, Charles Urstadt, Donald Trump, and Michael Bloomberg. “Weighty and wonderful…Resting on a sturdy foundation of research and imagination, Steinberg’s volume begins with Henry Hudson’s arrival aboard the Half Moon in 1609 and ends with another transformative event—Hurricane Sandy in 2012” (The Plain Dealer, Cleveland). This book is a powerful account of the relentless development that New Yorkers wrought as they plunged headfirst into the floodplain and transformed untold amounts of salt marsh and shellfish beds into a land jam-packed with people, asphalt, and steel, and the reeds and gulls that thrive among them. With metropolitan areas across the globe on a collision course with rising seas, Gotham Unbound helps explain how one of the most important cities in the world has ended up in such a perilous situation. “Steinberg challenges the conventional arguments that geography is destiny….And he makes the strong case that for all the ecological advantages of urban living, hyperdensity by itself is not necessarily a sound environmental strategy” (The New York Times).
Rebuild by Design
Rebuild by Design - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rebuild by Design write by Rebuild by Design. This book was released on 2015-06-30. Rebuild by Design available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Southern Manhattan Coastal Protection Study: Evaluating the Feasibility of a Multi-Purpose Levee
Southern Manhattan Coastal Protection Study: Evaluating the Feasibility of a Multi-Purpose Levee - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Southern Manhattan Coastal Protection Study: Evaluating the Feasibility of a Multi-Purpose Levee write by Jesse M. Keenan . This book was released on 2014-05-01. Southern Manhattan Coastal Protection Study: Evaluating the Feasibility of a Multi-Purpose Levee available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Southern Manhattan Coastal Protection Study: Evaluating the Feasibility of an MPL report (the “Feasibility Study”) was conducted by a team led by ARCADIS U.S., Inc.. The team also included HR&A Advisors, Inc., FXFOWLE Architects, WXY Studio, Sive, Paget & Riesel P.C., AKRF, Inc., Ocean and Coastal Consultants, and Jesse M. Keenan (the “Study Team”). The Feasibility Study focused on an approximately 1.3-mile span of the eastern edge of Manhattan, from the Battery Maritime Building to Pier 35 (the “Study Area”). The Feasibility Study also analyzed adjacent areas that would be integral to a comprehensive flood protection solution for Southern Manhattan. The Feasibility Study concluded that: 1) An multi-protection levee (MPL) is technically feasible in the Study Area and will not induce flooding either in adjacent neighborhoods or across the East River. 2) An MPL is legally feasible within the existing regulatory framework. However, the required permitting/approvals processes will be complex and lengthy. 3) An MPL is financially feasible and could not only be self-financing, but could also help finance complementary flood protection investments in Southern Manhattan. The MPL options and conceptual development programs evaluated within the report were defined for feasibility analysis purposes; the findings within do not comprise a development proposal. The process to articulate, assess, and advance an actual development proposal for an MPL will be long and complex, and will require extensive local stakeholder engagement and coordination. The commitment to effectively address the known climate change risks must remain as the core driver of that process, especially regarding all future work that builds upon and follows up on this Feasibility Study. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5246133
