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|a Edge Atlas |h [electronic resource]. |
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|a On the Water |b Palisade Bay. |
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|a Please contact the owning institution for licensing and permissions. It is the user's responsibility to ensure use does not violate any third party rights. |
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|a In the past century or so, once gradual adjustments to the coastline
due to geological and climatological processes gave way to more frequent
and more dramatic adjustments due to artificial processes. It
was during that time that the metropolitan New York region underwent
a number of important changes including major growth in its
population, the peak and subsequent decline of local industry, shifts
in maritime use, and the establishment of the highway system.
With these historical changes to the urban environment, the coastline
of the NY-NJ Upper Bay was likewise reshaped. The line drawing
at right illustrates the state of the coastline and the shallow underwater
flats decade by decade through the twentieth century. The
years between 1918 and 1928 saw extensive construction of piers
along the eastern waterfront of Staten Island and elsewhere around
the harbor. By 1944 significant filling of land on the New Jersey side
had begun, including the development of the Military Ocean Terminal,
and throughout the harbor shoals and flats were made smaller
or eliminated altogether by dredging. Between 1967 and 1977, the
maritime industry recentered itself in New Jersey, resulting in the
construction of a second large landfill pier in Bayonne and the removal
of the piers lining Manhattan. The end of the century saw
continued disintegration of piers in Brooklyn and Staten Island.
While the New York waterfront today remains a zone in transition,
for our purposes, charting its current shape has been quite informative.
But to fully understand the state of the current coastline one
must look beyond the shape of the line itself both to its material
qualities and its sectional characteristics |
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|a Electronic reproduction. |c Florida International University, |d 2015. |f (dpSobek) |n Mode of access: World Wide Web. |n System requirements: Internet connectivity; Web browser software. |
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|a Geographic information systems. |
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|u http://dpanther.fiu.edu/dpService/dpPurlService/purl/FI15060982/00001 |y Click here for full text |
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