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Book SynopsisThe 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.
Trade Review"Friends of the High Line has also been trying to make up for lost time, launching arts and jobs initiatives with residents of nearby public housing. Danya Sherman, former director of public programs, education, and community engagement for Friends of the High Line, details these efforts in her contribution to
Deconstructing the High Line, a series of essays by academics, architects, and those involved in the making of the elevated park... Before the High Line proffered progressivism through its programming, other contributors to the book note, it cast cold, hard capitalism in concrete. In recent years, mountains of ink have been spilled about how the ills facing contemporary New York and cities around the globe have been exacerbated by the High Line's complicity ... Other books about the High Line either don't engage these critiques or only do so through the eyes of Hammond and Friends of the High Line co-founder Josua David." * The Village Voice *
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Deconstructing the High Line is a timely, insightful, comprehensive, and interdisciplinary study that dares to critically examine the widely celebrated High Line from a variety of social, political, and cultural perspectives." -- Dora Apel * author of Beautiful Terrible Ruins: Detroit and the Anxiety of Decline *
"At last! A smart book on the High Line that places it critically in both a local and a global frame! Since the High Line has quickly become a global pace maker among local place makers, this critical, multidimensional view is absolutely necessary to understand the political forces and aesthetic displacements that are reshaping our cities and our lives." -- Sharon Zukin * author of Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places *
"This book teaches us that an all-inclusive approach from the point of view of urban theory is needed to better understand the effects of projects of urban, social and economic 'improvement.'" * Urbanistica informazioni *
Table of ContentsList 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
