Recommended Texts
Crowe, Norman, and Paul Laseau. Visual Notes for Architects and Designers. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2012. Print. (Reserve NA2750 .C76 2012)
Articles
“Prologue.” Gowanus : Brooklyn’s curious canal (Joseph Alexiou) HANDOUT
“The Uses of City Neighborhoods.” The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Jane Jacobs) HANDOUT
As Hundreds of Toxic Sites Await Cleanup, Questions over Superfund Program’s Future (Michael D. Regan) PBS Newshour
MAP: Who Owns All the Property Along the Gowanus Canal (Leslie Albrecht)
Building of the Day: 543 Union Street, a 19th Century Box Factory in Gowanus (Suzanne Spellen) Brownstoner
Rezoning Gowanus Now a Consideration on de Blasio’s Housing Agenda (Sally Goldenberg) Politico
In Brooklyn, Worrying About Not Only Flooding but also What’s in the Water (Elizabeth A. Harris) New York Times
The Batcave, a Graffiti Landmark in Brooklyn, Grows Up (Matt A.V. Chaban) New York Times
Inside the Gowanus Batcave with Abandoned NYC (Will Ellis) Photoessay, Untapped Cities
How the Coastline Became a Place to Put the Poor (Jonathan Mahler) New York Times
Multimedia
Natalie Loney, Cleaning Up a Local Superfund Site TEDxGowanus Video
Surveying the Destruction Caused by Hurricane Sandy, New York Times
Audio Interference: Radio Free Gowanus
Lopate WNYC Podcast with Alexiou
Modern Art Notes Podcast with Abby Subak
Primary Sources
Gowanus Neighborhood Planning Study Annotated Study Areas Map NYC Department of City Planning
Bridging Gowanus Study, Executive Summary NYC Department of City Planning
Archaeological Survey Nevins Street (Butler Street to President Street) 1977, Department of Water Resources, City of New York
Reconsidering Gowanus: Opportunities for the Sustainable Transformation of an Industrial Neighborhood, Steven L. Newman Real Estate Institute (Baruch College)
Web Resources
Annotated Bibliography, City Tech Library
Architectural Technology Subject Guide, City Tech Library
Evaluating Sources, City Tech Library
Historic Maps as Historian’s Evidence, Newberry Library
Making Sense of Maps, George Mason University and the American Social History Project
Primary, secondary, and tertiary sources, Virginia Tech University Libraries
Quoting, Paraphrasing, and Summarizing, Purdue OWL
What are archives and how do they differ from libraries? Society of American Archivists
