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The brooklyn bridge park

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犹如美国的其他城市一样，在这里，人们有着广泛的娱乐休闲活动，而水的存在，又为这座城市增添了不少色彩，这座城市的河滨公园位于步道附近，这里风景优美，景色撩人。在十九世纪末二十世纪初的时候，港口发展迅速，而这里，也从制造业转向了服务业，同时也更加注重了对水的开发和利用。

在沿着河的东部地区，该地区的开发和利用甚至可以追溯到十七世纪八十年代。而现在该项目的核心建设地区，可以追溯到二十世纪五十年代左右，当时这里航运发达，各个码头繁忙，大大小小的仓库遍地都是，同时，还建有交通要道。当人们步入这个花园时候，人们会被它的雄伟壮观所深深的吸引，这里的景观已经形成了规模，各个部分已经都变成了不可替代的了。整个项目的经费预算大概在3.5亿美元左右，可以说是巨资建设。

Like many American cities, New York long severed much of daily life, particularly leisure activity, from direct engagement with its waterways. Visitors to urban riverside parks have historically been sequestered in scenic overlooks or railed-in promenades. And with good reason: Through the 19th and much of the 20th centuries, harbors developed into gritty and inhospitable industrial places. But in recent decades, that water-land disconnect has been gradually healing, as New York and other cities have shifted from manufacturing to service economies, coupled with serious measures to clean, preserve, and access their aqueous riches in pleasurable, old-fashioned ways.

Along the East River, landfill expanding the working shoreline dates back to the 1680s and forms BBP’s underlying terrain. But the site’s most significant modern shapers came in the 1950s, when the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey developed it as an 85-acre shipping complex, with six piers of warehouses. In that same era, a new traffic artery, the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway (BQE), isolated this low-lying waterfront from its inland and upland adjacencies. The BQE’s tiered road decks and the pedestrian promenade above them cantilever from a steep bluff. While this engineering feat preserved residential Brooklyn Heights’s views, it also produced a virtually impenetrable divide. And by the early ’70s, containerized shipping had rendered the once state-of-the-art facility obsolete, ending its life as a cargo complex in 1983.

As you enter the park, that spectacular span, with the Manhattan Bridge just beyond it, comes exhilaratingly into view. Most striking is the scale of these looming structures — and your intimate proximity to them. As Van Valkenburgh points out, there is a contemporary quality in the way the park engages the visible infra¬structure, the “800 acres of water,” and the cityscape. When the $350 million park is complete (likely in 2015), it will extend more than a mile, snaking under both bridges. Countering the dramatic backdrop, BBP’s landside entry points (reached from three existing through streets) convey the modesty of a neighborhood park. Water-taxi moorings plus a proposed footbridge over a surface roadway will provide additional access.