High Line: The Inside Story of New York City's Park in the Sky
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By Joshua David and Robert Hammond
The High Line, a new park atop an elevated rail structure on Manhattan’s 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, Joshua David and Robert Hammond, with no prior experience in planning and development collaborated with their neighbors, elected officials, artists, local business owners, and leaders of burgeoning movements in horticulture and landscape architecture to create a park celebrated worldwide as a model for creatively designed, socially vibrant, ecologically sound public space. This is their story. 352 pp. Paperback. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.
Members' price $26.96
The High Line, a new park atop an elevated rail structure on Manhattan’s 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, Joshua David and Robert Hammond, with no prior experience in planning and development collaborated with their neighbors, elected officials, artists, local business owners, and leaders of burgeoning movements in horticulture and landscape architecture to create a park celebrated worldwide as a model for creatively designed, socially vibrant, ecologically sound public space. This is their story. 352 pp. Paperback. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.
Members' price $26.96
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