A New Postindustrial Nature: Remembering the Wild Waterfront of Hunters Point

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" A New Postindustrial Nature: Remembering the Wild Waterfront of Hunters Point "
Campo, Daniel

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	942685
Doc. No	:	LA3f63w7r5
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	Campo, Daniel
Title & Author	:	A New Postindustrial Nature: Remembering the Wild Waterfront of Hunters Point [Article]\ Campo, Daniel
Title of Periodical	:	Streetnotes
Volume/ Issue Number	:	25
Date	:	2016
Abstract	:	This essay explores engagement with postindustrial landscapes and conceptions of nature at Hunters Point, a formerly vacant waterfront site in Queens, New York City. Chronicling and documenting a number of appropriations and transgressive practices at this postindustrial site, it argues for the necessity of vacant spaces within dense contemporary cities, like New York. Vacant or marginal spaces, particularly those on the water's edge, offer opportunities for environmental engagement that are not available in traditional or emerging parks and public spaces, and speak to basic human impulses or needs to convene with the natural environment in which we live.