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Waterfronts provide a natural opportunity to make a memorable urban place, yet many of them remain obsolete or underused. Remaking the Urban Waterfront, written by expert architects and planners, explains the importance of and challenges inherent in transforming waterfronts, the key design issues, zoning and land use regulations, environmental obstacles, development incentives, and how the public and private sectors must work together to create spectacular new waterfronts. Case studies of both small- and large-scale projects describe how mixed-use, residential, retail/entertainment, commercial/ industrial, civic buildings, and parks were developed in the United States and abroad
Book Description
A collection of gorgeous homes for those who dream of life on the water's edge.
-Open floor plans with expansive views!
-Enjoy the beauty of a home alongside a lake, river, or ocean in this exclusive collection of homes designed for waterfront living.
-Whether readers are planning to build a year-round home or join the growing vacation home market, this book will delight and inspire them.
-This title showcases home plans that feature open floor plans, ample master suites and great rooms, large windows to enjoy the view, and porches and decks that extend the living space and embrace the outdoors.
-With an enhanced editorial section and the latest trends in home design, this second edition improves upon the best-selling original.
Customer Reviews:
Give me a break!.......2007-04-30
Not really waterfront homes. Just run of the mill home plans. Save your maoney!
Disappointed.......2006-03-03
I was looking for house plans that had the major rooms on the front of the house overlooking a view. The title led me to believe I would find that type of home in this book. I did not. Also, most of the plans were very complicated with multiple roof angles and expensive building items.
Book Description
n Introducing a stunning collection of homes as magnificent as the vistas they showcase. n A 32-page full-color gallery section showcases the best of the best n Expansive windows, quaint porches and wide-open decks bring the outdoors in and allow these plans to take full advantage of their surroundings. n Painstakingly crafted by the top architects and residential designers in the nation. n Complete construction blueprints are available for every home in this collection.
Customer Reviews:
House on the River.......2007-06-27
This book was particularly helpful with orientations toward a particular view. We live on a river and are looking for ideas.
Give me a break.......2007-04-30
Not really homes with a view. Just run of the mill home plans. Save your money!
Disappointed.......2006-03-03
I was looking for house plans that had the major rooms on the front of the house overlooking a view. The title led me to believe I would find that type of home in this book. I did not. Also, most of the plans were very complicated with multiple roof angles and expensive building items.
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All fall down: One man against the waterfront mob
Donald Goddard
Manufacturer: Times Books
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Beach houses are the ideal getaway homes, offering the peace and relaxation of living near water, the fun of hanging out on the beach, and the total change of environment from city life. Selected from the pages of Fine Homebuilding, this book provides inspiration for anyone dreaming of such a home, plus practical guidance for designing and building in this often-challenging environment. Chosen for their variety of styles and settings, these outstanding examples range from Northwest eclectic in Seattle to an elegant houseboat in Rhode Island, from the quintessential California beach house to an oceanfront classic in Nantucket, and from a kick-back Floridian cottage to a charming Canadian retreat. Throughout the book, photographs, floor plans, drawings, and expert building information give a full picture of the possibilities for at the beach.
Customer Reviews:
Good Idea.......2007-07-08
Good short book with a number of high quality photo's and good of ideas for renovating, or building from scratch.
Book Description
A home by the lake or sea, a refuge by the water's edge, is the romantic dream of almost every homeowner. But the technical and aesthetic challenges of waterside construction place unique demands on the builder. Through exquisite photography and detailed architectural plans, this volume explores innovative residential designs from around the globe to illustrate how top architectural firms have met those challenges and created some of the most strikingly beautiful homes in the world.
Customer Reviews:
21 Architects made proud.......2006-03-25
My compliments to both Ana and Harper Design for this publication. This is a book about 21 uniquely Modern homes on the waterfront. Each is showcased with a floor plan, quick synopsis, and photos. It is mostly a picturebook. One of the wonderful things about this book is that it presents itself as a portfolio. You get the sense that such a presentation was handled with the sense of care and understanding that each architect himself would have put into representing his/her house had they done them individually. Unlike other books showcasing Modern architecture, this one provides a good range of solutions architects have employed to capture that "million-dollar view", whether it is siting, materials, or spatial organization. I would have rated it higher had it given the details to compliment the photography. This is a wonderful addition to any architectural library.
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Railroading along the waterfront
Eli Rantanes
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ASIN: 0941952533 |
Book Description
Railroading Along The Waterfront will take you on a photographic journey to key places where rails and water meet. You'll be treated to views of the compact terminal railroads in New York, where the only connection to the outside is by carfloat. You'll see a sampling of the reserved ports in the Canadian Maritimes and New England, as well as the bulk terminals of the Great Lakes and the modern container traffic of the West Coast. You'll also get a glimpse of the relaxed pace of railroading and commerce along the continent's rivers and lakes where railroads first ferried across and then bridged the waters.
This book will also give model railroad enthusiasts tips on how to add the fascination of waterfront railroading to a layout. The photo-paced modeling chapter includes sections on easy ways to make water, the basics of carfloat operation, and the workings of Great Lakes ore docks, not to mention photos of waterfront industries and track layouts for pier districts.
Book Description
whatever your waterside wonderland-youre sure to find the perfect plan for it in Waterfront Homes. Featuring 200 designs from some of the best and most respected residential designers in the country, this book offers everything from simple cabins to luxurious waterfront estates. These homes allow you to enhance what many home owners believe are the most desirable sites in the country.
Customer Reviews:
Just a standard old house plan book.......2003-01-31
This is basically a collection of off the shelf house plans. I'd guarantee you that if you pick up another title by the same publisher, you'll find many of these plans repeated there. True, most do have a fair amount of glass on one side, making them suitable for catching views of why you built the house there. They have divided the plans in the categories like, lakefront, riverside, ocean, pier houses, and luxury. The houses listed in the lakefront and riverside chapters have nothing special about them to make them "lakefront" or "riverside". Some of the ocean houses do have more of either a Cape Cod or east coast feel, but not all. Obviously, the pier house are as advertised and the luxury are mostly just big.
If you're beginning your search and gathering starting points, this can be a good book. Quite honestly, you'll probably have better luck if you buy a plan book concentrating more on the features you want in a house not, as this book suggests the site of the house. If you want a one story home, buy plan books that say "ranch" or "one story" in the title, if you want a smaller or retirement home, look for "small" or "retirement" or "empty nester" in the title, if you want fewer but larger rooms, look for "open" in the title. After you've got a book with plans with features that fit your lifestyle, then look for plans with lots of windows to admire the view from. If you're looking for something a bit more unique, spend a little more and go with some of the hardback books on the market.
A good jumping off point.......2002-03-21
This book is my favorite of many home plan books. Lots of interesting design ideas. Though I believe any "canned" plan like the ones in this book needs to be adjusted to the site and to personal tastes by a architect or designer, this has a lot of choices and orientations. I have purchased one of the plans and have a permit to build. I own several ocean view lots and have targeted two other plans in the book that will suit the sites.
The plans are mostly by eastern builders if you buy the plans you will find that some of the specifics are foreign on the west coast.
Though one reviewer mentioned the plans were "cookie-cutter" I did not find them so. I have 6 other home plan books with plans that are much more similar to each other, and much less innovative.
One caveat for would be ocean builders is that in most coastal areas winds are fierce. Houses must be engineered to meet codes for hurricane force winds on both coasts. We had to have an engineer licensed in our state go over our plans and it was fairly expensive. Steel beams had to be added for reinforcement when the window to wall ratio was too low. It appears to me that the architects did their best to retain windows and views while making the houses buildable without spending a fortune, or having the owners replacing oversize windows when the seals break. This may be the reason that many of the plans do not seem overly "view" oriented, as one reviewer mentions.
Overall, I love this book. I lost my last copy and am buying it again. It's the only one I know of that has plans to suit my view lots.
What view?.......2001-06-09
I cannot imagine using these plans for a seaside house if you want to have a great view of the water. I didn't feel that these homes had specific construction geared to a waterfront home.
Same old listless architecture........2001-04-04
I couldn't find a single home plan I liked in this book. All the same old cookie-cutter, pre-fab looking designs that would appeal to people with a lot more money than taste.
A nice sample of waterfront houseplans.......2000-04-14
There are some exciting and distinguished house plans of all sizes in this book. The written features are succinct and describes characteristic features well. The plans are drawn fairly large and clear. The housplans themselves vary from vacation types of greater than 1200 square feet and more to luxurious residential homes abutting the lakeshore or river over 5,000 square feet. The plans have the front view drawings of the home. If you are looking for a home to build that is a vacation getaway in the Florida Keys or along the eastern intracoastal waterway, this may be your book to look through... its worth a glimpse at the very least!
Book Description
East Side, West Side, from the Little Red Lighthouse to Battery Park City, the wonders of Manhattan’s waterfront are both celebrated and secret–hidden in plain sight. In his brilliant exploration of this defining yet neglected shoreline, personal essayist Philip Lopate also recovers a part of the city’s soul.
A native New Yorker, Lopate has embraced Manhattan by walking every inch of its perimeter, telling stories on the way of pirates (Captain Kidd) and power brokers (Robert Moses), the lowly shipworm and Typhoid Mary, public housing in Harlem and the building of the Brooklyn Bridge. He evokes the magic of the once bustling old port from Melville’s and Whitman’s day to the era of the longshoremen in
On the Waterfront, while appraising today’s developers and environmental activists, and probing new plans for parks and pleasure domes with river views. Whether escorting us into unfamiliar, hazardous crannies or along a Beaux Arts esplanade,
Waterfront is a grand literary ramble and defense of urban life by one of our most perceptive observers.
Customer Reviews:
The (Once) Great Neighborhoods of New York City.......2007-08-15
As a transplanted native New Yorker, this is my favorite book about NYC. It is the NYC that few non-New Yorkers know and that appears to be fast disappearing in the land of million dollar condos. I found this while searching for information on the lower east side, where I grew up, and found a wonderful, engaging, and for me nostalgic visit to some of the old neighborhoods that built the city. It is rich with anecdote (who knew I was was from the same neighborhood as Jimmy Durante, albeit some 50 years apart) and descriptions of both the cultural and political landscapes that described a transformative New York and its melting pot of neighborhoods and people.
New York City's forgotten landscape.......2007-08-07
The author makes a key point that every major city celebrates their waterfron while New York turns inward. Unlike London, Dublin, Rome and Stockholm, New Yorkers hide from their origins. The waterfront becomes the land dominated by commuter highways, rotting docks, and landfills. Despite the negatives, the history disclosed here is rich making the book enjoyable, worthwhile and offers the hope that some of these blighted areas may become future recreation.
A Great Adventure Around Manhattan.......2006-11-02
As Lopate says, even though Manhattan is an island, its waterfront is under-utilized and, as a result, little-known -- even by native NYers. His wonderful book explores the mysteries and hidden treasures that surround our "island" and makes for a fascinating read. Although the book is about the waterfront it really is about SO MUCH MORE -- such as the infighting that surrounded the failed Westway project or the sociology of the former Fulton Fish Market (now relocated to The Bronx) or the architecture of Battery Park City.
New Yorkers and wannabe-New Yorkers will love this book because it reveals more fascinating city lore. It's more fun than any Circle Line Cruise.
Delightful, a Must-Read for New Yorkers Especially.......2006-01-17
As someone who lives in Washington heights in an apartment overlooking the GWB, runs along the bike path by the Little Red lighthouse, swims at Riverbank, and was recently married at the boathouse at Swindler Cove (in fact to a woman who plays tennis under the Williamsburg bridge and leads a volunteer swim program at Asphalt Green for kids from the Stanley Isaacs Houses), I was obviously the perfect audience for Lopate's wonderful book. I read it in dribs and drabs, and each time I picked it up I found a renewed affirmation for my own musings on all the things I adore about this city and its interface with the water, as well as a poignant commiseration with all the things I mourn about it.
As others have mentioned, this is an uneven book. It's quite true that Phillip Lopate is far better at philosophical impressionism than the presumably harder work of reporting, but I don't think that the intent of the book was purely journalistic. In fact one of its charms is that it ebbs and flows, just like the tides of the rivers themselves, from philosophical musing to blandly informative reportage and back again. A more seamless flow between the two would have made the book perhaps a more comfortable read. Indeed, if Lopate had been able to achieve a more transparent transition between the philosophical and the mundane this might have been one of a handful of the great books ever written on New York, on a par with "Up Over the Old Hotel" even. The long Westway retrospective toward the front of the book and the long analysis on the success of NYC Public Housing could be tedious if taken all in a gulp, but they were certainly not without interest or wisdom.
Some have complained, perhaps legitimately, about Lopate's incessant navel-gazing, but this didn't bother me. Anyone who has taken the time to wander alone in some of the more deserted places in Manhattan will know how this isolating experience can be a powerful conduit leading inexorably inward. I can understand how trying to express this experience might cause one to appear self-absorbed to the uninitiated. But for me, it was a very comforting source of identification, and one of the book's pleasures. Even Lopate's completely irrelevant aside on his memory of 9/11 had it's own sad and selfish merit. It revealed how many a New Yorker would remember the day if they were a little more honest about their character weaknesses (although had I been his editor it would have been the first thing cut).
Lopate anticipates the inevitable comparisons with the great Joseph Mitchell's seminal essays on the NY harbor, and he even preemptively addresses them by including a chapter on Mitchell himself. He needn't have been concerned, because it's unfair to expect from any writer in this day and age the same kind of hard-edged black & white picture of blue-collar Gotham that Mitchell so charmingly portrayed. Blue-collar Gotham no longer exists in Manhattan. New York in the 21st century is a vague and evasive city compared to those great days. In fact New York has become more significant as a phenomenon than as an actual place, and this is a problem that Lopate grasps very well. Perhaps the only way this complex fact can be expressed is in the form of a (necessarily uneven) personl journal, and this is how "Waterfront" actually reads most of the time.
The New York of today is a strange creature, composed of a densely populated body, supported by a massive urban skeleton, with a blandly suburban mind attached to it. Today's New York continually cannabilizes its own history in order to rid itself of the threat of its past, something that it seems to unconsciously fear and loath. One of the things that makes Lopate's book so valuable to me is that he shows, time and again, how the New York waterfront impassively exposes the clash between the recent influx of the suburban bourgeoisie and the remnants of the city's low-life past. New York's moral fibre is found in these remnants, and their continued loss has to a large degree trivialized the New York experience.
But like Lopate I finished the book loving New York as unconditionally as ever, and with the renewed hope that its resilience will help it survive as a vital cultural metropolis, and that somehow its lovely and mysterious waterfront will play a role in its moral and cultural survival.
A Walk on the WildWater Side or Not.......2005-12-24
Philip Lopate has written a wonderful paen to the waterfront of NYC. His descriptions of what is now, and what was yesterday strike just the right note. His notes (he calls them excursus) add substance and a bit of frivolity to what could have been a very dull subject (care to discuss the pros and cons of killing shipworms). He not only writes about what has been built, but what has been added and what was proposed but never built.
More than anything else he makes a great case for opening up the waterfront to additional parks and recreational use of this wonderful resource.
Book Description
They did the dirty work of the American Revolution
Their spontaneous uprisings and violent actions steered America toward resistance to the Acts of Parliament and finally toward revolution. They tarred and feathered the backsides of British customs officials, gutted the mansion of Lieutenant Governor Thomas Hutchinson, armed themselves with marline spikes and cudgels to fight on the waterfront against soldiers of the British occupation, and hurled the contents of 350 chests of British East India Company tea into Boston Harbor under the very guns of the anchored British fleet.
Cradle of Violence introduces the maritime workers who ignited the American Revolution: the fishermen desperate to escape impressment by Royal Navy press gangs, the frequently unemployed dockworkers, the wartime veterans and starving widows—all of whose mounting "tumults" led the way to rebellion. These were the hard-pressed but fiercely independent residents of Boston's North and South Ends who rallied around the Liberty Tree on Boston Common, who responded to Samuel Adams's cries against "Tyranny," and whose headstrong actions helped embolden John Hancock to sign the Declaration of Independence. Without the maritime mobs' violent demonstrations against authority, the politicians would not have spurred on to utter their impassioned words; Great Britain would not have been provoked to send forth troops to quell the mob-induced rebellion; the War of Independence would not have happened.
One of the mobs' most telling demonstrations brought about the Boston Massacre. After it, John Adams attempted to calm the town by dismissing the waterfront characters who had been killed as "a rabble of saucy boys, negroes and mulattoes, Irish teagues, and outlandish jack tars." Cradle of Violence demonstrates that they were, more truly, America's first heroes.
Customer Reviews:
"Liberty Tree" --.......2007-03-16
The so-called "Liberty Tree on Boston Common" was in fact on "Boston Neck" -- the narrow strip of land between the mainland and Boston which prevented the latter being an island, along which ran "Orange," now "Washington," St.
And characterizing the North and South Boston gangs, rivals until Sam Adams brought them together, and which operated under his direction -- the "Liberty Boys," the "Brown Shirts" of the day, which he used in various ways against political opponents, not all of whom were the "enemy," to achieve his political ends -- as "Waterfront Mobs" goes beyond stretching it, especially in suggesting they were employable, or interested in being employed beyond the self-chosen "job" of freelance "enforcers".
"Wharf rats" would be more accurate had they actually spent their time as putative dock workers on the actual docks instead of having the run of the city, largely as members and leaders of the criminal underbelly, as if funtionally illiterate semi-mature teenagers with too much time on their hands. They were among those -- and likely initiated -- the Sam Adams' propagandized "Boston Massacre" by throwing chunks of ice and worse at the small contingent of British troops they had trapped, and yelling "fire!" from within the crowd.
But, I guess in order to sell a retelling of an often-untruthfully-told story to the unsuspecting reader one must wrap it in a new slant, regardless accuracy.
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