Jamaica Bay

Jamaica Bay
Author: Daniel M. Hendrick
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 179
Release: 2006-10-23
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 143961802X

For more than two centuries after the Dutch settled its meandering shores, Jamaica Bay was little more than a watery expanse broken by small islands and a handful of mills. Rapid growth after the Civil War transformed the bay into a microcosm of a developing nation, as meadows gave way to houses and factories, and giant steamers and locomotives appeared. Plans to create the world's largest deepwater port here were never realized, yet Jamaica Bay did emerge as a hub for aviation; the first successful transatlantic flight departed over the bayfollowed by millions of flights that have taken off from John F. Kennedy International Airport ever since. Through historic photographs, Jamaica Bay illustrates the bay's transformation into a shellfishing haven, a recreational playground with hotels and casinos, and now the focus of a longterm environmental rehabilitation.

Prospects for Resilience

Prospects for Resilience
Author: Eric W. Sanderson
Publisher: Island Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2016-11-17
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 1610917332

Given the realities of climate change and sea-level rise, coastal cities around the world are struggling with questions of resilience. Resilience, at its core, is about desirable states of the urban social-ecological system and working to sustain those states in an uncertain and tumultuous future. How do physical conditions, ecological processes, social objectives, human politics, and history shape the prospects for resilience? Most books set out "the answer." This book sets out a process of grappling with holistic resilience from multiple perspectives, drawing on the insights and experiences of more than fifty scholars and practitioners working together to make Jamaica Bay in New York City an example for the world. Ranging from a framework for understanding resilience practice in urban watersheds to essential tools for research and practice, Prospects for Resilience is filled with information and advice for scientists, urban planners, students, and others who are working to create more resilient cities that work with, not against, nature.

Jamaica Inn

Jamaica Inn
Author: Daphne du Maurier
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-08
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780316575225

From the author of Rebecca and The Birds: a classic thriller of shipwreck and murder, "rich in suspense and surprise" (New York Times Book Review). On a bitter November evening, young Mary Yellan journeys across the rainswept moors to Jamaica Inn in honor of her mother's dying request. When she arrives, the warning of the coachman begins to echo in her memory, for her aunt Patience cowers before hulking Uncle Joss Merlyn. Terrified of the inn's brooding power, Mary gradually finds herself ensnared in the dark schemes being enacted behind its crumbling walls -- and tempted to love a man she dares not trust. The inspiration for the 1939 Alfred Hitchcock film.

Gateway: Visions for an Urban National Park

Gateway: Visions for an Urban National Park
Author: Alexander Brash
Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2011-09-28
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 9781568989556

Gateway National Recreation Area is one of the most diverse and underused parks in the national park system. Spreading across the coastline of Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, and New Jersey, it includes wildlife estuaries, bird-nesting areas, salt marshes, historic military forts, beaches, and NYC's first municipal airport, to name just a few of its exceptional features. It also contains sewage treatment plants, sewer outfalls, landfills, and acres upon acres of "black mayonnaise." Due to neglect and misuse, this extraordinary natural and national resource is at risk. Ninety percent of the salt marshes in Jamaica Bay one of the most biologically productive habitats in the region will have disappeared by 2011. This book presents the collaborative efforts of the Van Alen Institute, the National Parks Conservation Association, and Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation to investigate and document the diverse ecology of the park and re-envision a more sustainable future for it.

Annual Report

Annual Report
Author: New York (State). Conservation Dept
Publisher:
Total Pages: 370
Release: 1913
Genre: New York (State)
ISBN:

The Killing Time

The Killing Time
Author: Gad Heuman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 230
Release: 1994
Genre: Jamaica
ISBN:

Over de achtergronden en nasleep van de "Morant bay rebellion" , een opstand die uitbrak op 11 oktober 1865 in Jamaica.