An Urban Rehabilitation proposal for the west side of Manhattan "Centro Delle Arti" core of a sensorial walkway

Abstract

Chelsea is a multi-facet interesting neighborhood on the west site of Manhattan along the Hudson River, just north of Greenwich Village, stretching from 14th to 30th 5t and from the river to 5ixth Avenue towards the east.The mixed character of Chelsea -residential, commercial and industrial- developed in mid-Nineteenth Century since the very beginning of its urbanization: on one si de it was poi sed to become a quiet and decorous familiar residential neighborhood with some culturally momentous institutional buildings, like 5t Peter's Church, built in Gothic Revival style according to the British architectural fashion of that time, or the General Theological 5eminary, which represented the first university campus in New York.