Hydrogeology of the Clifton Park area, Saratoga County, New York

1985 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Author(s):  
P. A. Buckley ◽  
Walter Sedwitz ◽  
William J. Norse ◽  
John Kieran

This book offers the first quantitative long-term historical analysis of the migratory, winter, and breeding avifaunas of any New York City natural area—Van Cortlandt Park and the adjacent Northwest Bronx—and spans the century and a half from 1872 to 2016. Only Manhattan’s Central and Brooklyn’s Prospect Parks have published even lightly annotated cumulative species lists, last updated in 1967, and the most recent book addressing the birdlife of the New York City area was published more than 50 years ago. Addressed are the 301 Bronx, New York City and New York City area species known to have occurred within the study area, plus another 70 potential additions. These are contrasted with their status in adjacent Riverdale, the entire Bronx, Central and Prospect Parks, New York City, plus Long Island, Westchester, and Rockland Cos. The history of the 123 known study area breeding species are tracked from 1872—only 20 years after Audubon’s death in Manhattan—complemented by unique quantitative breeding data from Van Cortlandt Park censuses from 1937 to 2015. Gains and losses of breeding species are tracked and discussed as an expanding New York City inexorably extinguished unique habitat, offset only slightly by addition of two large reservoirs. Comparisons are provided with analogous data from heavily monitored Central and Prospect Parks. The tradeoffs in attempting to managing an urban park area for mass recreation at the same time as conserving its natural resources are highlighted.


Oryx ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 298-302 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas T. Struhsaker

One of Colombia’s finest national parks, La Macarena, is being gradually encroached by settlers — the park area has been nearly halved since 1948, and there is no sign of an end to the process. The author, a research zoologist of the New York Zoological Society, describes the situation and appeals to the President and the government to act to save the park.


2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 120-127
Author(s):  
Jovilė Porvaneckaitė

To consciously provoke the society’s reaction, an architectural object is inserted – on the design offer level – into the main recreational zone of the New York peninsula, the Central Park area. Besides, the social and cultural phenomena inspired by the innovative form of this project are touched upon. The article aims to analyse the process of form modelling and, consequently, perform a research on the form power based on an experimental project carried out by the author. It is also sought to find out the influence of the volume deficiency formed in the city’s planning system on the suggestibility of the building’s form. In the given project, the term volume deficiency is used to describe the stress environment within the city structure, formed on the artistic, planning, volume, stylistic, value or historical basis that programmes the continuity of the above processes after integration of the newly proposed object into the above-mentioned environment. Artistic value of the volume developed within the stress environment and adapted to it provides the suggestibility to the form typical to objects of mass attraction. The form designed in such space obtains all the features characteristic to an architectural sign or urban dominant. The City of Pain project is created as a bridge connecting a narrow city system with large area of artificial recreational space. The building is formed as a corridor for social provocation and laboratory of the modern society’s behaviour. Santrauka Sąmoningai siekiant sukelti visuomenės reakciją į Niujorko pusiasalio pagrindinę rekreacinę zoną – Centrinio parko erdvę – projektinio pasiūlymo lygiu įterpiamas architektūrinis objektas, taip pat aptariami ir inovatyvios formos sukelti socialiniai bei kultūriniai reiškiniai. Straipsnio tikslas – remiantis autorės atliktu eksperimentiniu projektu nagrinėti formos modeliavimo procesą ir ištirti modeliavimo poveikį formos galioms. Siekiama nustatyti, kaip pastato formos galia ir įtaiga priklauso nuo miesto planinėje sistemoje susiformavusio (ar suformuoto) tūrio. Tūrio trūkumu aptariamame projekte vadinama meniniu, planiniu, tūriniu, stilistiniu, vertės ar istoriniu pagrindu sudarytos įtampos terpė miesto struktūroje, užprogramuojanti šių procesų tęstinumą po naujai siūlomo objekto integracijos į minėtą aplinką. Įtampos terpėje sukurto ir joje adaptuoto tūrio meninė vertė formai suteikia masinės traukos objektui būdingą įtaigą. Tokioje erdvėje projektuojama forma įgyja visas architektūriniam ženklui, miesto dominantei būdingas savybes. Skausmo miesto projektas tarsi koridorius jungia ankštą miesto sistemą su didžiule dirbtine rekreacine erdve. Pastatas formuojamas kaip socialinių provokacijų koridorius ir moderniosios visuomenės elgesio laboratorija.


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