The Floating Pool Lady: A Quest to Bring a Public Pool to New York City's Waterfront
Author:   Ann L. Buttenwieser
Publisher:   Cornell University Press
ISBN:  

9781501716010


Pages:   304
Publication Date:   15 May 2021
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Ann L. Buttenwieser
Publisher:   Cornell University Press
Imprint:   Three Hills
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.907kg
ISBN:  

9781501716010


ISBN 10:   1501716018
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   15 May 2021
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Prologue: Swim, Annie, Swim! 1. Fire and Water 2. The Eureka Moment 3. Waterfront in Despair 4. Hoboken Ho 5. Finding the C500 6. Contracts and Crawfish 7. Kafka on the Pier 8. Perspective Matters 9. The Orwellian Bureaucracy 10. The Big Jump 11. The Lady Moves to the Bronx Epilogue: Swim, New York City's Children, Swim!

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Ann L. Buttenwieser is an urban planner and urban historian. She has taught at the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University and at the Macaulay Honors College at the City University of New York. She is the author of Governors Island and Manhattan Water-Bound.

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