Rising currents : projects for New York's waterfront / txt
Barry Bergdoll.
- 112 p. : ill. ; map ; plan ; col. ; 26 cm. book
Published to accompany the exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art, 24 Mar. - 11 Oct. 2010.
Includes bibliographical references.
Rising currents: incubator for design and debate / Climate change and world cities / High stakes: soft infrastructure for the rising seas / Timeline: from MoMA PS1 to the Museum of Modern Art -- New urban ground / Working waterline / Water proving ground / Oyster-tecture / New aqueous city / Barry Bergdoll -- Michael Oppenheimer -- Guy Nordenson and Catherine Seavitt -- Stephen Cassell, Adam Yarinsky and Susannah C. Drake -- Matthew Baird -- Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki and David J. Lewis -- Kate Orff -- Eric Bunge and Mimi Hoang.
In the fall of 2009, The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 selected five interdisciplinary teams of architects, engineers and landscape designers to propose solutions to the effects of climate change on New York's waterfront. The resulting proposals, exhibited at MoMA in 2010 in the exhibition Rising Currents: Projects for New York's Waterfront, emphasize "soft" infrastructure interventions that would make New York City and its surrounding areas more ecologically sound and more resilient in responding to rising sea levels and storm surges. These innovative projects include the creation of salt- and freshwater wetlands, a Venice-like aqueous landscape, habitable piers and man-made islands, and a protective reef of living oysters. Published to document the exhibition, Rising Currents: Projects for New York's Waterfront presents these five projects in detail through essays that summarize the innovative workshop and exhibition, the dialogues they engendered with outside experts and political figures involved in regional planning, and the climate change and urban planning implications of the proposed solutions.
9780870708077 (hbk.) 0870708074 (hbk.)
Waterfronts--Environmental aspects--New York (State)--New York--Exhibitions. City planning--New York (State)--New York--Exhibitions. Sea level--New York (State)--New York.