Deconstructing the High Line: Postindustrial Urbanism and the Rise of the Elevated Park

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The High Line, an innovative promenade created on a disused elevated railway in Manhattan, is without doubt 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 with regards to attracting visitors, investment, and property development to Manhattan’s West Side. Ceaselessly celebrated as a monument to community-led activism, adaptive re-use of urban infrastructure, and innovative ecological design, the High Line is being used as a model for a large number of urban redevelopment plans proliferating all over the world.

Deconstructing the High Line is the first book to analyze the High Line from more than one perspectives, critically assessing its aesthetic, economic, ecological, symbolic, and social impacts. Including several essays by planners and architects straight away involved in the High Line’s design, this volume also brings together a diverse range of scholars from the fields of urban studies, geography, anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies. Together, they offer insights into the project’s remarkable success, whilst also giving serious consideration to the critical charge that the High Line is “Disney World on the Hudson,” a project that has merely greened, sanitized, and gentrified an urban neighborhood whilst displacing longstanding residents and businesses.

Deconstructing the High Line is not only for New Yorkers, but for any individual interested in larger issues of public space, neoliberal redevelopment, creative design practice, and urban renewal.  

 

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