Deconstructing the High Line : : Postindustrial Urbanism and the Rise of the Elevated Park / / ed. by Christoph Lindner, Brian Rosa.
The High Line, an innovative promenade created on a disused elevated railway in Manhattan, is one of the world's most iconic new urban landmarks. Since the opening of its first section in 2009, this unique greenway has exceeded all expectations in terms of attracting visitors, investment, and p...
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- List of Figures and Tables
- High Line Timeline
- Introduction: From Elevated Railway to Urban Park
- Part I: Envisioning the High Line
- 1. Hunt's Haunts
- 2. Community Engagement, Equity, and the High Line
- 3. Loving the High Line: Infrastructure, Architecture, and the Politics of Space in the Mediated City
- Part II: Gentrification and the Neoliberal City
- 4. Parks for Profit: Public Space and Inequality in New York City
- 5. Park (In)Equity
- 6. Retro-Walking New York
- Part III: Urban Political Ecologies
- 7. The Garden on the Machine
- 8. The Urban Sustainability Fix and the Rise of the Conservancy Park
- 9. Of Success and Succession: A Queer Urban Ecology of the High Line
- Part IV: The High Line Effect
- 10. A High Line for Queens: Celebrating Diversity or Displacing It?
- 11. Programming Difference on Rotterdam's Hofbogen
- 12. Public Space and Terrain Vague on São Paulo's Minhocão: The High Line in Translation
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- Notes on Contributors
- Index