Gateway: Visions for an Urban National Park launch at Van Alen Books
Friday, Jan 27, 20125 AMEDT
| 30 W. 22nd Street New York, NY
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Van Alen Institute partnered with the National Parks Conservation Association and Columbia's GSAPP to host an international ideas competition that looked afresh at the fate of natural and cultural resources in dense urban settings by reimagining an urban national park in New York City: the Gateway National Recreation Area. Gateway: Visions for an Urban National Park showcases entries from the competition, and considers them within broad contexts of ecological regeneration, cultural diversity, urban policy, and environmental education. With contributions from editors Alexander Brash, Jamie Hand, and Kate Orff, as well as reflections from historian Ethan Carr, critic Christopher Hawthorne, the National Park Service’s Rolf Diamant, former VAI executive director Adi Shamir, and others, the book documents the innovative competition process and ways that urban parks can foster democracy and community. Join the editors, photographer Laura McPhee and GSAPP's Sarah Williams to celebrate the launch of Gateway. Van Alen Books
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