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New York ► Mouth of Hudson River ► Central node of Megalopolis U.N. headquarters ► NYC = nation’s commercial & financial center ► Boroughs? Staten Island Brooklyn Queens Bronx Manhattan
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Staten Island ► Pop. = 380,000 ► Settled by Dutch ► Verrazano-Narrows Bridge
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Brooklyn ► Pop. = 2.3 mill. ► Most diverse & populated of boroughs ► Brooklyn Bridge
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Queens ► Pop. = 2 mill. ► Largest physical size of boroughs ► Queensboro Bridge Connects Queens to Manhattan (East River)
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Bronx ► Pop. = 1.2 mill. ► Named after Jonas Bronk (1639) ► Yankee Stadium
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Manhattan ► Pop. = 1.5 mill ► Smallest in area/most urbanized 71,201/sq. mi. ► Per capita GDP = >$100,000 ► Largest business district in U.S. NYSE NASDAQ (2 ND largest stock exchange after NYSE) ► “National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations” Home to most corporate h.q. ► United Nations h.q.
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Washington, D.C. ► Anchor of Megalopolis ► Seat of the U.S. govt. ► #1 employer = govt. ► #2 employer = tourism Historical sites ► Urban sprawl the uncontrolled spread of urban development into neighboring regions
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Out w/the old & in w/the new? ► Northeast = very old infrastructure & buildings ► Adaptive Reuse the process of reusing an old site or building for a purpose other than which it was built or designed for ► promotes land conservation and reduces urban sprawl ► Gentrification Refurbishment of old building stock by urban professionals for residential or office space.
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Pratt Street Power Plant in Baltimore, Maryland: converted into retail, restaurants, and offices. Example of Adaptive Reuse
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Used to be P & LE Railroad Station, Pittsburgh, PA Now, it’s Station Square—an indoor and outdoor shopping, dining and entertainment complex located in the South Shore neighborhood of Pittsburgh ► 275,000 square feet of retail space 65 stores, restaurants and entertainment venues The Amphitheatre at Station Square and the 396-room Sheraton ► As one of Pittsburgh’s largest tourist destinations, it attracts more than three million people annually Example of Adaptive Reuse
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Baltimore’s Inner Harbor revitalized into HarborPlace --Was a center of warehouses and docks --Now a center of retail, restaurants, businesses, sports & entertainment BEFORE:AFTER:
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Mills to residential conversion ► Ex: Massachusetts Mills in Lowell, MA was converted into a 445-unit apartment complex beginning in 1990
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► Libertyville’s “mini-mansions” are examples of gentrification People buy older real-estate, tear it down & build newer and bigger houses
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Downside to Urban Gentrification ► Gentrification when wealthier people ("gentry") acquire or rent property in low income and working class communities Urban gentrification is associated with movement With gentrification, the avg. income increases and avg. family size decreases in the community. ► Results in higher rent, house prices, & property taxes = poorer native residents of the neighborhood are displaced old industrial buildings are converted to residences and shops (Adaptive Reuse) new businesses, catering to a more wealthy base of consumers, move in, further increasing the appeal to more wealthy migrants and decreasing the accessibility to the poor
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