This book offers an extended case study of the urban community
of Bushwick, located in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. The
authors begin with a broad review of the history of Bushwick and
Brooklyn, from before the earliest European settlements of the
1600s, through the 18th and 19th centuries and up the 1960s.
Chapter Two begins by tracing the steep decline of the community,
which culminated in catastrophic fires and looting in the wake of
New York s electrical blackout of 1977 and goes on to describe the
beginnings of urban planning and renewal efforts which launched the
recovery of Bushwick in the 1980s to early 2000s. Chapter Three
steps back from the immediacy of the community to discuss urban
change from a theoretical perspective. The authors outline advances
in sustainable urban planning and describe how these apply to
Bushwick and the wider Brooklyn community.
Chapter Four offers a detailed examination of the intent and
function of New York s community board planning system, known as
the Charter 197-a program. In Chapter Five the authors examine the
197-a planning process and its application in the areas of
Bushwick, Williamsburg and Greenpoint in Northeast Brooklyn;
Brooklyn Downtown and in Southeast Brooklyn including Coney
Island.The following chapter examines a number of innovative
Bushwick high schools that offer practical experience in urban
planning. Drawing the urban planning experiences together, the book
concludes with a look at future directions in city renewal.
Emphasis here is placed on sustainable urban planning and the
lessons to be learned from the experience of Bushwick and
Brooklyn.
The specifics of urban planning and renewal are illustrated with
tables and figures. The details of planning are informed by an
overarching sense of history, beginning with the dedication of the
book to the memory of six Universalist writers associated with New
York: Henry Thoreau, Helena Blavatsky, Henry George, Henry Miller,
Arthur Miller and Walt Whitman. A rich trove of historical
materials, ranging from family sketches to school rosters to rarely
seen photographs, helps to keep the survey and analysis of urban
planning grounded in the lives of Bushwick s residents, past,
present and future."
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