Deconstructing the High Line : postindustrial urbanism and the rise of the elevated park /
Deconstructing the High Line : postindustrial urbanism and the rise of the elevated park /
edited by Christoph Lindner and Brian Rosa.
- New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, (c)2017.
- 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: from elevated railway to urban park / Envisioning the High Line -- Hunt's Haunts / Community engagement, equity, and the High Line / Loving the High Line : infrastructure, architecture, and the politics of space in the mediated city / Gentrification and the neoliberal city -- Parks for profit: public space and inequality in New York City / Parks (in)equity / Retro-walking New York / Urban political ecologies -- The garden on the machine / The urban sustainability fix and the rise of the conservancy park / Of success and succession: a queer urban ecology of the High Line / The High Line effect -- A High Line for Queens: celebrating diversity or displacing it? / Programming difference on rotterdam's hofbogen / Public space and terrain vague on São Paulo's Minhocão: the High Line in translation / Brian Rosa and Christoph Lindner -- James Corner -- Danya Sherman -- Alan Smart -- Kevin Loughran -- Julian Brash -- Christoph Lindner -- Tom Baker -- Phil Birge-Liberman -- Darren J. Patrick -- Scott Larson -- Daan Wesselman -- Nate Millington.
"The High Line, an innovative promenade created on a disused elevated railway in Manhattan, is widely recognized as among the most iconic urban landmarks of the twenty-first century. It has stimulated public interest in landscape design while simultaneously re-integrating an abandoned industrial relic back into the everyday life of New York City. Since its opening in 2009, this unique greenway has exceeded all expectations in terms of attracting visitors, investment, and property development to Manhattan's West Side, and is frequently celebrated as a monument to community-led activism, adaptive re-use of urban infrastructure, and innovative ecological design. It has also inspired a worldwide proliferation of similar proposals seeking to capitalize on the repurposing of disused urban infrastructure for postindustrial revitalization. In the wake of an overwhelmingly celebratory public reaction to the transformation, this interdisciplinary book is the first to bring together scholars from the across the fields of architecture, urban planning and design, geography, sociology, and cultural studies to critically interrogate the aesthetic, ecological, symbolic, and social impact of the High Line. In so doing, the book addresses the High Line's relation to public space, creative practice, urban renewal, and gentrification."--Provided by publisher.
9780813576480
Urban parks--New York (State)--New York.
Land use--New York (State)--New York.
City planning--New York (State)--New York.
Railroads, Elevated--Remodeling for other use.
Electronic Books.
F128 / .D436 2017
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: from elevated railway to urban park / Envisioning the High Line -- Hunt's Haunts / Community engagement, equity, and the High Line / Loving the High Line : infrastructure, architecture, and the politics of space in the mediated city / Gentrification and the neoliberal city -- Parks for profit: public space and inequality in New York City / Parks (in)equity / Retro-walking New York / Urban political ecologies -- The garden on the machine / The urban sustainability fix and the rise of the conservancy park / Of success and succession: a queer urban ecology of the High Line / The High Line effect -- A High Line for Queens: celebrating diversity or displacing it? / Programming difference on rotterdam's hofbogen / Public space and terrain vague on São Paulo's Minhocão: the High Line in translation / Brian Rosa and Christoph Lindner -- James Corner -- Danya Sherman -- Alan Smart -- Kevin Loughran -- Julian Brash -- Christoph Lindner -- Tom Baker -- Phil Birge-Liberman -- Darren J. Patrick -- Scott Larson -- Daan Wesselman -- Nate Millington.
"The High Line, an innovative promenade created on a disused elevated railway in Manhattan, is widely recognized as among the most iconic urban landmarks of the twenty-first century. It has stimulated public interest in landscape design while simultaneously re-integrating an abandoned industrial relic back into the everyday life of New York City. Since its opening in 2009, this unique greenway has exceeded all expectations in terms of attracting visitors, investment, and property development to Manhattan's West Side, and is frequently celebrated as a monument to community-led activism, adaptive re-use of urban infrastructure, and innovative ecological design. It has also inspired a worldwide proliferation of similar proposals seeking to capitalize on the repurposing of disused urban infrastructure for postindustrial revitalization. In the wake of an overwhelmingly celebratory public reaction to the transformation, this interdisciplinary book is the first to bring together scholars from the across the fields of architecture, urban planning and design, geography, sociology, and cultural studies to critically interrogate the aesthetic, ecological, symbolic, and social impact of the High Line. In so doing, the book addresses the High Line's relation to public space, creative practice, urban renewal, and gentrification."--Provided by publisher.
9780813576480
Urban parks--New York (State)--New York.
Land use--New York (State)--New York.
City planning--New York (State)--New York.
Railroads, Elevated--Remodeling for other use.
Electronic Books.
F128 / .D436 2017