The Accidental Playground : : Brooklyn Waterfront Narratives of the Undesigned and Unplanned / / Daniel Campo.
The Accidental Playground explores the remarkable landscape created by individuals and small groups who occupied and rebuilt an abandoned Brooklyn waterfront. While local residents, activists, garbage haulers, real estate developers, speculators, and two city administrations fought over the fate of...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 50 Black & White and Color Illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Prologue
- 1 Discovering and Engaging a Vacated Waterfront
- 2 The Rise and Fall of Shantytown Skatepark
- 3 March and Burn: Practice, Performance, and Leisure without a Plan
- 4 Outside Art: Exploring Wildness and Reclamation at the Water’s Edge
- 5 Local Tales: Hanging Out and Observing Life on the Waterfront
- 6 Residential Life: Hardship and Resiliency on the Waterfront
- 7 Neighbors Against Garbage: Activism and Uneasy Alliances on the Waterfront
- 8 Unplanned Postscript: Dogs, Sunsets, Rock Bands, and the Governance of a Waterfront Park
- 9 Planning for the Unplanned
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index