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


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    Title :

    Rising currents : projects for New York's waterfront ; [... in conjunction with the Exhibition Rising Currents: Projects for New York's Waterfront, March 24 - October 11, 2010 at The Museum of Modern Art, New York...]



    Conference:

    Exhibition Rising Currents: Projects for New York's Waterfront ; 2010 ; New York, NY


    Publication date :

    2011


    Size :

    112 S.



    Type of media :

    Book , Conference Proceedings


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English



    Classification :