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Nearly four hundred years after its founding, New York, the city that grew and grew through “creative destruction,” is a mature metropolis. If New York were a forest, we would describe it as having reached its climax species in many areas, whether in skyscrapers built to their maximum zoning envelope, or in a prevailing belief in many neighborhoods that growth, at least in scale, is undesirable. New York of the future will likely look much the same as it does today-just as Rome, Paris, or London have set their essential identities.
Yet, as change and growth of population are certain, how can the city adapt and advance in the twenty-first century? Recognizing the need for a great majority of New York’s buildings to be modernized, but not replaced, the Museum examined “greening” the city by spotlighting a range of innovative projects that feature landmark preservation, adaptive re-use, reinvented industrial sites, and sustainable development.
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Williamsburg Waterfront
Shaun Donovan, Stephen B. Jacobs, Jeffery E. Levine, Dan Kaplan, Ron Moelis, Tom O’Gara, Robert Powers, Philip Tugendrajch![](https://skyscraper.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Verizon-250x375.jpg)
New Verizons
Douglas Mass, Richard A. Cook, Frank Frankini, Dan Shannon, Douglas Winshall![](https://skyscraper.org/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/450px-270_Park_Avenue_WTM_by_official-ly_cool_100-250x375.jpg)