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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Lavender Lake
    sub title: Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal
  name:
    name part: Prete, Alison.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Rough on Rats Productions
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Internet videos.
  genre: Documentary films.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2001
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (54 min.)
  abstract: South Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal, opened in 1866, was once hailed as one of the shortest and most important waterways in the world. It was also known as one of the world s dirtiest. Its putrid, perfumed airs were highly recommended for head colds. After one hundred thirty years of raw sewage, toxic sludge, dumped corpses and drowned dogs, the community continues to fight to clean up the Gowanus. Lavender Lake looks at what the promise of a new environment means to those who live and work in the Gowanus area: the funeral director has fought for decades for his vision of a Venice in Brooklyn; the environmentalist attempts to re-introduce oysters to the canal; the physicist working to turn the canal into a test site for transforming toxic sludge into kitchen tiles; the cops who fish a suitcase out full of body parts. Weaving together their stories with the past three years of progress and delays to flush out the canal, the documentary captures a blighted urban space of astonishing physical beauty at a critical moment of change. It shows a community dreaming and battling over a new and suddenly desirable urban landscape. Can a group of visionary citizens reclaim the waterway and build a viable neighborhood that is also a mecca for travelers?
  target audience: For High School; Adult audiences.
  target audience: general
  note: by Alison Prete, Rough on Rats Productions.
  note: Previously published as DVD.
  note: Title from resource description page (viewed May 24, 2011).
  note: Slide.
  note: Electronic reproduction. Alexandria, VA : Alexander Street Press, 2011. (VAST - Academic video online). Available via World Wide Web.
  note: In English.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-ny
  subject:
    topic: Canals
  subject:
    topic: Water
    topic: Pollution
  subject:
    geographic: Gowanus Canal (New York, N.Y.)
  classification: TC624.N7 P748 2001
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: ALSTP
    record creation date: 080405
    record change date: 20260324205925.9
    record identifier: in00003746047
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng