001477571 000__ 07621nam\a22010815i\4500 001477571 001__ 1477571 001477571 003__ DE-B1597 001477571 005__ 20231026034816.0 001477571 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001477571 007__ cr\un\nnnunnun 001477571 008__ 230103t20132013nyu\\\\\o\\d\z\\\\\\eng\d 001477571 019__ $$a(OCoLC)1302163387 001477571 020__ $$a9780823251902 001477571 0247_ $$a10.1515/9780823251902$$2doi 001477571 035__ $$a(DE-B1597)623954 001477571 035__ $$a(OCoLC)1301549577 001477571 040__ $$aDE-B1597$$beng$$cDE-B1597$$erda 001477571 0410_ $$aeng 001477571 044__ $$anyu$$cUS-NY 001477571 072_7 $$aSOC026030$$2bisacsh 001477571 08204 $$a307.0974723 001477571 084__ $$aZH 9400$$2rvk$$0(DE-625)rvk/156318: 001477571 1001_ $$aCampo, Daniel, $$eauthor.$$4aut$$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut 001477571 24514 $$aThe Accidental Playground :$$bBrooklyn Waterfront Narratives of the Undesigned and Unplanned /$$cDaniel Campo. 001477571 264_1 $$aNew York, NY : $$bFordham University Press, $$c[2013] 001477571 264_4 $$c©2013 001477571 300__ $$a1 online resource (304 p.) :$$b50 Black & White and Color Illustrations 001477571 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001477571 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001477571 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001477571 347__ $$atext file$$bPDF$$2rda 001477571 50500 $$tFrontmatter -- $$tCONTENTS -- $$tPrologue -- $$t1 Discovering and Engaging a Vacated Waterfront -- $$t2 The Rise and Fall of Shantytown Skatepark -- $$t3 March and Burn: Practice, Performance, and Leisure without a Plan -- $$t4 Outside Art: Exploring Wildness and Reclamation at the Water's Edge -- $$t5 Local Tales: Hanging Out and Observing Life on the Waterfront -- $$t6 Residential Life: Hardship and Resiliency on the Waterfront -- $$t7 Neighbors Against Garbage: Activism and Uneasy Alliances on the Waterfront -- $$t8 Unplanned Postscript: Dogs, Sunsets, Rock Bands, and the Governance of a Waterfront Park -- $$t9 Planning for the Unplanned -- $$tNotes -- $$tAcknowledgments -- $$tIndex 001477571 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001477571 520__ $$aThe Accidental Playground explores the remarkable landscape created by individuals and small groups who occupied and rebuilt an abandoned Brooklyn waterfront. While local residents, activists, garbage haulers, real estate developers, speculators, and two city administrations fought over the fate of the former Brooklyn Eastern District Terminal (BEDT), others simply took to this decaying edge, transforming it into a unique venue for leisure, creative, and everyday practices. These occupiers and do-it-yourself builders created their own waterfront parks and civic spaces absent every resource needed for successful urban development, including plans, designs, capital, professional assistance, consensus, and permission from the waterfront's owners. Amid trash, ruins, weeds, homeless encampments, and the operation of an active garbage transfer station, they inadvertently created the "Brooklyn Riviera" and made this waterfront a destination that offered much more than its panoramic vistas of the Manhattan skyline. The terminal evolved into the home turf for unusual and sometimes spectacular recreational, social, and creative subcultures, including the skateboarders who built a short-lived but nationally renowned skatepark, a twenty-five-piece "public" marching band, fire performance troupes, artists, photographers, and filmmakers. At the same time it served the basic recreational needs of local residents. Collapsing piers became great places to catch fish, sunbathe, or take in the views; the foundation of a demolished warehouse became an ideal place to picnic, practice music, or do an art project; rubble-strewn earth became a compelling setting for film and fashion shoots; a broken bulkhead became a beach; and thick patches of weeds dotted by ailanthus trees became a jungle. These reclamations, all but ignored by city and state governments and property interests that were set to transform this waterfront, momentarily added to the distinctive cultural landscape of the city's most bohemian and rapidly changing neighborhood.Drawing on a rich mix of documentary strategies, including observation, ethnography, photography, and first-person narrative, Daniel Campo probes this accidental playground, allowing those who created it to share and examine their own narratives, perspectives, and conflicts. The multiple constituencies of this waterfront were surprisingly diverse, their stories colorful and provocative. When taken together, Campo argues, they suggest a radical reimagining of urban parks and public spaces, and the practices by which they are created and maintained. The Accidental Playground, which treats readers to an utterly compelling story, is an exciting and distinctive contribution to the growing literature on unplanned spaces and practices in cities today. 001477571 538__ $$aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. 001477571 546__ $$aIn English. 001477571 5880_ $$aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. 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