River Street Waterfront: Water & City

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BIG Bjarke Ingels Group [architects.]

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Computer filePublication details: urbanNext, January 20, 2020.Description: 609 wordsISSN:

2575-5374

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Summary: The Brooklyn waterfront is continually evolving. What was once a soft shoreline of wetlands, marshes, shallows, beaches and tidal flats is now a series of elevated piers, bulkheads and physical barriers, compromising the relationship between water and city.

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Brooklyn (19) ,
Public Space (264) ,
Public realm (26) ,
Renaturalizing city (12) ,
Resilience (72) ,
Tower (47) ,
Urban ecology (31) ,
Urban landscape (82) ,
Waterfront (148) ,
Project (1170)

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BIG-BJARKE INGELS GROUP, Energy and sustainability, Essay, High Density, Territory and mobility, Urban Paradigms

Brooklyn, Climate change, Connections, Ecological footprint, Ecological infrastructure, Leisure, Megacities & High Density, Natural connectors, New York, Open Space, Project, Public realm, Public Space, Renaturalizing city, Resilience, Tower, Urban ecology, Urban landscape, Waterfront, Wetlands

The Brooklyn waterfront is continually evolving. What was once a soft shoreline of wetlands, marshes, shallows, beaches and tidal flats is now a series of elevated piers, bulkheads and physical barriers, compromising the relationship between water and city.

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