An Alternative for Gateway National Recreation Area
Harvard University Graduate School of Design. 1988. An Alternative for Gateway National Recreation Area. Harvard University Graduate School of Design. Cambridge, MA
This study of the future of Gateway National Recreation Area is the product of student work in a graduate-level studio at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. The project has been supported by a cooperative agreement between the Graduate School of Design (GSD) and the National Park Service North Atlantic Region Office under which various studies and research activities of mutual interest are undertaken. There is, however, no contractual or consultative relationship between the National Park Service and the GSD, its faculty or students. The work presented is the full responsibility of the thirteen students who were members of the studio group. This summary of the group's finding presents issues, planning strategies, and design proposals based on the conditions and options facing the Gateway lands and the National Park Service today. The primary function of this study is one of education: for the students who will become professionals in landscape architecture and planning; for the National Park Service, which has full responsibility for developing plans and policies for the Gateway National Recreation Area; and for the citizens of the New York/New Jersey harbor region who may benefit from the insights and ideas developed by the studio group.