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. Deconstructing the High Line is the first book to analyse the High Line from multiple perspectives, critically assessing its aesthetic, economic, ecological, symbolic, and social impacts.
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. Deconstructing the High Line is the first book to analyse the High Line from multiple perspectives, critically assessing its aesthetic, economic, ecological, symbolic, and social impacts.
CHRISTOPH LINDNER is a professor and dean of architecture and allied arts at the University of Oregon in Eugene. His recent books include Imagining New York City: Literature, Urbanism, and the Visual Arts, as well as the edited volumes Global Garbage, Inert Cities, and Paris-Amsterdam Underground. BRIAN ROSA is an assistant professor of urban studies (Queens College) and geography (The Graduate Center) at the City University of New York.
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List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments High Line Timeline Introduction: From Elevated Railway to Urban Park Brian Rosa and Christoph Lindner Part I Envisioning the High Line Chapter 1 Hunt’s Haunts James Corner Chapter 2 Community Engagement, Equity, and the High Line Danya Sherman Chapter 3 Loving the High Line: Infrastructure, Architecture, and the Politics of Space in the Mediated City Alan Smart Part II Gentrification and the Neoliberal City Chapter 4 Parks for Profit: Public Space and Inequality in New York City Kevin Loughran Chapter 5 Parks (In)Equity Julian Brash Chapter 6 Retro-Walking New York Christoph Lindner Part III Urban Political Ecologies Chapter 7 The Garden on the Machine Tom Baker Chapter 8 The Urban Sustainability Fix and the Rise of the Conservancy Park Phil Birge-Liberman Chapter 9 Of Success and Succession: A Queer Urban Ecology of the High Line Darren J. Patrick Part IV The High Line Effect Chapter 10 A High Line for Queens: Celebrating Diversity or Displacing It? Scott Larson Chapter 11 Programming Difference on Rotterdam’s Hofbogen Daan Wesselman Chapter 12 Public Space and Terrain Vague on São Paulo’s Minhocão: The High Line in Translation Nate Millington Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
List of Figures and Tables Acknowledgments High Line Timeline Introduction: From Elevated Railway to Urban Park Brian Rosa and Christoph Lindner Part I Envisioning the High Line Chapter 1 Hunt’s Haunts James Corner Chapter 2 Community Engagement, Equity, and the High Line Danya Sherman Chapter 3 Loving the High Line: Infrastructure, Architecture, and the Politics of Space in the Mediated City Alan Smart Part II Gentrification and the Neoliberal City Chapter 4 Parks for Profit: Public Space and Inequality in New York City Kevin Loughran Chapter 5 Parks (In)Equity Julian Brash Chapter 6 Retro-Walking New York Christoph Lindner Part III Urban Political Ecologies Chapter 7 The Garden on the Machine Tom Baker Chapter 8 The Urban Sustainability Fix and the Rise of the Conservancy Park Phil Birge-Liberman Chapter 9 Of Success and Succession: A Queer Urban Ecology of the High Line Darren J. Patrick Part IV The High Line Effect Chapter 10 A High Line for Queens: Celebrating Diversity or Displacing It? Scott Larson Chapter 11 Programming Difference on Rotterdam’s Hofbogen Daan Wesselman Chapter 12 Public Space and Terrain Vague on São Paulo’s Minhocão: The High Line in Translation Nate Millington Bibliography Notes on Contributors Index
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