Creating a New-Long Island, City: Adaptive Reuse - Repurposing Long Island

Author(s)

D'Amico, Matthew Johnathan

Title

Creating a New-Long Island, City: Adaptive Reuse - Repurposing Long Island

Date

2022

Publisher

New York Institute of Technology

Subject

Urban Renewal-- New York (State)-- New York-- Planning
City Planning-- New York(State)-- New York

Language

English

Format

PDF

Type

Text

Major

Architecture

Abstract

Successfully transforming a town full of wealth and historic charm that is struggling to regain its purpose in contemporary America and create a sustainable new form of urbanism that promotes social, economic, and cultural mobility in a transit oriented environment.

An increasingly common suburban landscape presents at least 2 major failures: a shopping zone anchored by one or more “BigBox” stores surrounded by a sea of asphalt-paved parking lots. In the era of Amazon.com, such big box stores are dying commercially, and the vast paved surface is a hot spot that will only magnify global warming while disrupting ground water percolation and runoff. 

Can such a financial white elephant and environmental black hole represent an opportunity for not only physical but also social, economic, and cultural regional transformation?

Files

damico_matthew_j_compressed.pdf

Citation

D'Amico, Matthew Johnathan, Creating a New-Long Island, City: Adaptive Reuse - Repurposing Long Island. New York Tech Institutional Repository, accessed March 29, 2024, https://repository.nyitlibrary.org/items/show/3395

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