Description
This special issue features a comprehensive exploration of New York City’s transformation over the past decade and the changes to its recent landscape. Through several themes – energy, waterway and climate, transportation and infrastructure, parks and public space, housing and neighbourhood, education – the main issues facing the metropolis today and in the future are addressed, presented in research and essays by Fumihiko Maki (“Modernism on the Open Sea”), Jill N. Lerner (“New York 2013: Towards a More Liveable City”) and Toshiko Mori (“Innovation and Cities”). Highlighted projects include Hudson Yards, the East Harlem School and Campbell Sports Center.
CONTENTS
- Essay: Modernism on the Open Sea, Fumihiko Maki
- Feature: Urban Innovation, New York
- Map of New York City
- Reshaping New York
- Maps of Five Cities 1:300,000
- How is New York City being Rebuilt?
- Recent Landscape of New York City
- Essay: New York 2013: Towards a More Livable City, Jill N Lerner
- Innovations and Projects
- Hudson Yards
- Atlantic Yards, Barclays Center / SHoP Architects
- Chapter 1: Energy, Renewing the Use of Existing Buildings
- Chapter 2: Waterway and Climate, Resilient City
- RISING CURRENTS – Project for New York’s Waterfront / Hunter’s Point South, Waterfront Park
- Chapter 3: Transportation and Infrastructure, Restructuring Existing Transit System
- Times Square Reconstruction / Fulton Center / Proposals for New Penn Station
- Chapter 4: Parks and Public space, New Approach for Public Space Administration
- Brooklyn Bridge Park / Walking on the High Line from Section 1 to Section 3
Chapter 5: Housing and Neighborhood, Diversity in Living - Via Verde – The Green Way / My Micro NY
- Chapter 6: Education, Intellectual and Economic Growth in Community
- Columbia University Manhattaville Campus Plan
- Essay: Innovation and Cities, Toshiko Mori
- The East Harlem School / GLUCK+
- Campbell Sports Center / Steven Holl Architects
- Frieze Art Fair NYC / SO – IL
- Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park / Louis I. Kahn
144 pages, ills colour & bw / 22 x 29 cm / English, Japanese
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