The High Line, a new park atop an
elevated rail structure on Manhattans West Side, is among the most Innovative
urban reclamation projects in memory. The story of how it came to be is a
remarkable one: two young citizens with no prior experience in planning and
development collaborated with their neighbors, elected officials, artists,
local business owners, and leaders of burgeoning movement of horticulture
worldwide as a model for creatively designed, socially vibrant, ecologically
sound space ( David and Hammond, 2011).
The importance of studying the High line
park is the transformation of the Death Avenue to an urban garden, and the way
of the recycling of the railway into urban park that has spurred real estate
development in the neighborhoods which lie along the line. According to Pamela
Hartford, the High Line was under threat of demolition, it has been resurrected
as a park, and it was considered as one of the 10 landscape design projects that turn damaged
and spaces into healthy, beautiful environments .
Also, one of the great delights of the
high line is the mix of the architectural styles with different colors and
textures that represent virtually every period of the city’s history. “The high
line is a great, unfolding gallery where this urban work of art can viewed in
real time” (La Farge, 20e12). For example, there are many building designed by
famous architects overlooking the High Line Park such as the sail building by
Frank Gehry, the Metal Shutter Houses by Shigeru Ban, and many others.
Im sharing with you the images that I took last summer for the High Line
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