Title Brooklyn's Bushwick-- urban renewal in New York, USA : community, planning and sustainable environments / Raymond Charles Rauscher, Salim Momtaz

Published Cham : Springer, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xxviii, 150 pages) : illustrations (some color) Contents Chapter 1: Bushwick and Northeast Brooklyn: Formative Years to 1960's -- Chapter 2: Bushwick: Planning in 1970s to Current Times -- Chapter 3: Planning for Sustainable Communities -- Chapter 4. New York City Planning: Community Boards and Planning Instruments -- Chapter 5. Application of Planning Instruments: Case Studies -- Chapter 6. Preparing Students for Urban Futures: Case Example Bushwick -- Chapter 7. Future Directions: Sustainable Urban Planning (SUP) -- Appendices -- Post Script -- Glossary -- Index Summary This book offers an extended case study of the urban community of Bushwick, located in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. The authors begin with a broad review of the history of Bushwick and Brooklyn, from before the earliest European settlements of the 1600s, through the 18th and 19th centuries and up the 1960s. Chapter Two begins by tracing the steep decline of the community, which culminated in catastrophic fires and looting in the wake of New York's electrical blackout of 1977, and goes on to describe the beginnings of urban planning and renewal efforts which launched the recovery of Bushwick in the 1980s to early 2000s. Chapter Three steps back from the immediacy of the community to discuss urban change from a theoretical perspective. The authors outline advances in 'sustainable urban planning', and describe how these apply to Bushwick and the wider Brooklyn community. Chapter Four offers a detailed examination of the intent and function of New York's community board planning system, known as the Charter 197-a program. In Chapter Five the authors examine the 197-a planning process and its application in the areas of Bushwick, Williamsburg and Greenpoint in Northeast Brooklyn; Brooklyn Downtown and in Southeast Brooklyn including Coney Island. The following chapter examines a number of innovative Bushwick high schools that offer practical experience in urban planning. Drawing the urban planning experiences together, the book concludes with a look at future directions in city renewal. Emphasis here is placed on 'sustainable urban planning' and the lessons to be learned from the experience of Bushwick and Brooklyn. The specifics of urban planning and renewal are illustrated with tables and figures. The details of planning are informed by an overarching sense of history, beginning with the dedication of the book to the memory of six Universalist writers associated with New York: Henry Thoreau, Helena Blavatsky, Henry George, Henry Miller, Arthur Miller and Walt Whitman. A rich trove of historical materials, ranging from family sketches to school rosters to rarely seen photographs, helps to keep the survey and analysis of urban planning grounded in the lives of Bushwick's residents, past, present and future Analysis steden towns urbanisatie urbanization fysische geografie physical geography landen countries duurzame ontwikkeling sustainable development ruimtelijke ordening physical planning regionale planning regional planning milieu environment migratie migration Urban Development Stadsontwikkeling Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes English Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed May 15, 2014) In Springer eBooks Subject Urban renewal -- New York (State) -- New York -- History SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Urban. Sciences de la terre. Environnement. Urban renewal SUBJECT Bushwick (New York, N.Y.) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr98013197 Subject New York (State) -- New York New York (State) -- New York -- Bushwick Genre/Form History Form Electronic book Author Momtaz, Salim, 1959- author. ISBN 9783319057620 3319057626 3319057618 9783319057613

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