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        <language>en-us</language><item><title><![CDATA[Landscape Urbanism Featured Project: Brooklyn Bridge Park]]></title><description><![CDATA[Currently under construction, Brooklyn Bridge Park will eventually encompass approximately eighty-five acres and 1.3 miles of waterfront. The park’s goals are both ambitious and straightforward: to preserve the dramatic experience and monumental character of the industrial waterfront while reintroducing self-sustaining ecosystems to the site and investing it with new social and recreational possibilities.]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 00:00:00 000</pubDate><link>http://www.brooklynbridgeparknyc.org/news/articles/landscape-urbanism-featured-project</link></item><item><title><![CDATA[Emotional Landscapes: Interview with landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh]]></title><description><![CDATA[Michael Van Valkenburgh is the principal of Michael Van Valkenburgh Associates (MVVA), a landscape architecture firm renowned for creating experientially rich and environmentally sustainable places... The BMW Guggenheim Lab Log sat down with Van Valkenburgh, who teaches at Harvard University, to discuss the role of landscape architecture in “emotional cityness.”]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:00:00 000</pubDate><link>http://www.brooklynbridgeparknyc.org/news/articles/emotional-landscapes-interview-with</link></item><item><title><![CDATA[12 Places to Visit in 2012 (excerpted)]]></title><description><![CDATA[New York: This is no secret. In 2011, the city drew more than 50 million visitors (including day-trippers from as close as 50 miles away), a record...Touring the sights of New York can include fitness classes, such as this one in Brooklyn Bridge Park, across from lower Manhattan.]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 00:00:00 000</pubDate><link>http://www.brooklynbridgeparknyc.org/news/articles/12-places-visit-2012-excerpted</link></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Brooklyn Writers' Guide to Brooklyn]]></title><description><![CDATA[Experience Brooklyn like a local—but not just any local. In this series of interviews, Brooklyn's best authors share their favorite spots to eat, walk, write, and find inspiration, both in the borough and beyond. (Find out which authors love Brooklyn Bridge Park!)]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:00:00 000</pubDate><link>http://www.brooklynbridgeparknyc.org/news/articles/brooklyn-writers-guide-brooklyn</link></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Hot Seat: Regina Myer]]></title><description><![CDATA[Welcome to the Hot Seat, where we interview folks involved in Brooklyn real estate, architecture, development and the like. Introducing Regina Myer, president of Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 00:00:00 000</pubDate><link>http://www.brooklynbridgeparknyc.org/news/articles/hot-seat-regina-myer</link></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brooklyn Bridge Park Receives New York State's American Institute of Architects 2011 Community Development  Honor Award]]></title><description><![CDATA[ALBANY – AIA New York State (AIANYS) recently honored the 2011 Honor Awards recipients at a dinner at The Desmond in Albany. The Honor Awards program was instituted to provide appropriate recognition to individuals who have influenced the profession of architecture in New York State]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 00:00:00 000</pubDate><link>http://www.brooklynbridgeparknyc.org/news/press-releases/brooklyn-bridge-park-receives-new-york</link></item><item><title><![CDATA[City Grinds Out a Market for Muck]]></title><description><![CDATA[The construction of the East River tunnel connecting the Long Island Rail Road to Grand Central Terminal has also helped the hundreds of thousands of urbanites who flock to Brooklyn Bridge Park, a new patch of green built under the bridge on unused piers that jut out from the Brooklyn waterfront.]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:00:00 000</pubDate><link>http://www.brooklynbridgeparknyc.org/news/articles/city-grinds-out-market-muck</link></item><item><title><![CDATA[Design News: Is That an I-Beam or a Weather Vane?]]></title><description><![CDATA[After a successful installation on Governors Island this summer, sculptor Mark di Suvero and Storm King Art Center have installed another one of his works, “Yoga,” on the lawn at Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Pier 1. ]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:00:00 000</pubDate><link>http://www.brooklynbridgeparknyc.org/news/articles/design-news-beam-weather-vane</link></item><item><title><![CDATA[Storm King Art Center and Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy Present Large-Scale Sculpture by Mark di Suvero at Brooklyn Bridge Park's Pier 1 ]]></title><description><![CDATA[Installation Inaugurates Brooklyn Bridge Park’s Public Art Program.]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:00:00 000</pubDate><link>http://www.brooklynbridgeparknyc.org/news/press-releases/storm-king-art-center-brooklyn-bridge</link></item><item><title><![CDATA[What Goes Around]]></title><description><![CDATA[Along with jazz and speakeasies, the 1920s were also the heyday of the American carousel. A prime example, restored to its jazz-era glory, now sits on the Brooklyn waterfront.]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:00:00 000</pubDate><link>http://www.brooklynbridgeparknyc.org/news/articles/what-goes-around</link></item><item><title><![CDATA[Two Stunning Examples Of Urban Waterfront Renewal]]></title><description><![CDATA[San Francisco's Crissy Field and New York's Brooklyn Bridge Park are stunning examples of reinvented waterfronts.]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:00:00 000</pubDate><link>http://www.brooklynbridgeparknyc.org/news/articles/two-stunning-examples-urban-waterfront</link></item><item><title><![CDATA[The New Classics: The most enduring books, shows, movies, and ideas since 2000.]]></title><description><![CDATA[David Foster Wallace, in his introduction to The Best American Essays 2007, coined a great phrase to describe our contemporary media environment: "Total Noise." Movies, books, television shows, the journalistic outlets formerly known as newspapers, podcasts, YouTube videos, actual museums, tweets—they all comprise the noise. It's easy to feel that the cultural world has fractionated into endless niches. Yet, just as in previous decades, there will be those ideas that emerge and endure: the new classics.

]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:00:00 000</pubDate><link>http://www.brooklynbridgeparknyc.org/news/articles/new-classics-most-enduring-books</link></item><item><title><![CDATA[Summer Wrap Up: Brooklyn Bridge Park Attracts Record Number of Visitors and Public Programs Attract Over 70,000 Attendees]]></title><description><![CDATA[Brooklyn Bridge Park (BBP) celebrates the conclusion of a successful summer programming season]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:00:00 000</pubDate><link>http://www.brooklynbridgeparknyc.org/news/press-releases/summer-wrap-up-brooklyn-bridge-park</link></item><item><title><![CDATA[Place Maker: Michael Van Valkenburgh and Brooklyn Bridge Park]]></title><description><![CDATA[As with other great parks created on land where nothing existed before (here there were only docks and dilapidated warehouses), one stands in wonderment gauging the formation and growth of this totally created topography and ecology-a lush green island of nine and a half acres surrounded by a dramatic urban scene.]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:00:00 000</pubDate><link>http://www.brooklynbridgeparknyc.org/news/articles/place-maker-michael-van-valkenburgh</link></item><item><title><![CDATA[Waterfront Ruin Morphs Into $350 Million Park]]></title><description><![CDATA[The first stages of the park are barely older than a year, and yet you can already get lost in greenery that has replaced flat, crumbling-concrete warehouse docks along the river.]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:00:00 000</pubDate><link>http://www.brooklynbridgeparknyc.org/news/articles/waterfront-ruin-morphs-into-350-million</link></item><item><title><![CDATA[Jane's Carousel Opens at Newly Refurbished Portion of Brooklyn Bridge Park]]></title><description><![CDATA[Gift by David and Jane Walentas will be a year-round attraction for children of all ages]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:00 000</pubDate><link>http://www.brooklynbridgeparknyc.org/news/press-releases/janes-carousel-opens-newly-refurbished</link></item><item><title><![CDATA[A Ride with Head Spinning Views]]></title><description><![CDATA[THE journey from an Ohio theme park to Brooklyn has been long and difficult for 48 wooden horses, who today are scheduled to trot, canter, leap — O.K., be wheeled — from the Dumbo studio of Jane Walentas, the artist who spent over 20 years overseeing their restoration, to their permanent home, a carousel in Brooklyn Bridge Park.]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 00:00:00 000</pubDate><link>http://www.brooklynbridgeparknyc.org/news/articles/ride-with-head-spinning-views</link></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cleaner Harbor Has a Downside: Pests That Plague Park Construction]]></title><description><![CDATA[Over the next few years, New York City plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on shoreline parks, in possibly the biggest burst of waterfront-park construction in its history. Some of that money will buy things like new lawns, ball fields and even skateboard parks, but most of it will pay for something far more prosaic: concrete pilings. 

]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 00:00:00 000</pubDate><link>http://www.brooklynbridgeparknyc.org/news/articles/cleaner-harbor-has-downside-pests</link></item><item><title><![CDATA[Brooklyn Bridge Park Releases RFP For Pier 5 Indoor Recreational Facility]]></title><description><![CDATA[Brooklyn Bridge Park (BBP) today released a Request for Proposals (RFP) for an operator to construct, operate, and maintain a seasonal indoor recreation structure on Pier 5. ]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 23 Aug 2011 00:00:00 000</pubDate><link>http://www.brooklynbridgeparknyc.org/news/press-releases/brooklyn-bridge-park-releases-rfp-pier-2</link></item><item><title><![CDATA[At the Table | Brooklyn Bridge Park: Until Labor Day, Dining with a View]]></title><description><![CDATA[As the city has worked to expand the dining options in its parks, Brooklyn Bridge Park, which is being developed along a stretch of piers on the East River, has become a lively food destination.]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 00:00:00 000</pubDate><link>http://www.brooklynbridgeparknyc.org/news/articles/table-brooklyn-bridge-park-until</link></item></channel> 
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