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Article: Julia Vitullo-Martin.(Summer Reading)(Waterfront: A Journey around Manhattan)(The Outlaw Sea: A World of Freedom, Chaos and Crime)(The Ordinary Seaman)(The Dialectical Development of Doctrine: A Methodological Approach)(Book Review)
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- June 18, 2004
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Summer would be unthinkable without water--its tempering of heat, its romance, its beauty, its infinite offerings of fun. Yet our benign view of water is a very recent phenomenon, as a walk around many major American cities reminds us. Even as waterfront property is today prized above all other, until the 1960s urban waterfronts were primarily industrial, brutal, and cheap. The rich lived inland, and with few exceptions, only the poor worked and lived on the water.
The archipelago of New York, probably one of the greatest of waterfront cities, is given an excellent if partial walking tour by Phillip Lopate's Waterfront: A Journey around Manhattan (Crown ...