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par Schlichting, Kara Murphy
The University of Chicago Press
2019 -
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Disponible - 913.39(731.2) MUR
Niveau 2 - Géographie, urbanisme
Résumé : In this perceptive addition to literature on the history of urban planning and development, Schlichting (history, Queens College, CUNY) shifts attention from the downtown core of New York City to show that the urban periphery was not so peripheral after all. She reminds readers that even before the 1898 consolidation that joined Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and the Bronx into the City of Greater New York, the development of coastline parks and leisure areas extended Manhattan into the surrounding regions. New York City is a collection of islands, and the waterways between them are not boundaries but links that have encouraged regional growth and planning. Beginning in the mid-19th century with P. T. Barnum's park project in Bridgeport, CT, and William Steinway's manufacturing town in Queens and concluding with the rehabilitation of Flushing Meadows for the 1939 World's Fair, Schlichting presents case studies of park, beach, and campground development around the coastline of the upper East River and both shores of Long Island Sound. Access to shoreline for leisure has been a narrative of clashing interests between private property and public access. Schlichting finds that nonprofessionals have long engaged in activities that should be defined as planning, and she concludes that "planning" cannot always be considered "progressive."Summing Up: Highly recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals.• Reviewer: A. E. Krulikowski, West Chester University
