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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 property development to
Manhattan's West Side. Frequently 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 numerous urban redevelopment plans proliferating
worldwide. Deconstructing the High Line is the first book to
analyze the High Line from multiple perspectives, critically
assessing its aesthetic, economic, ecological, symbolic, and social
impacts. Including several essays by planners and architects
directly 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, while 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 while displacing longstanding residents and
businesses. Deconstructing the High Line is not just for New
Yorkers, but for anyone interested in larger issues of public
space, neoliberal redevelopment, creative design practice, and
urban renewal.
aThe antagonism between urbanist and writer Jane Jacobs and
master builder Robert Moses may frame debates over urban form, but
in "Building Like Moses with Jacobs in Mind, " Scott Larson aims to
use the Moses-Jacobs rivalry as a means for examining and
understanding the New York City administration's redevelopment
strategies and actions. By showing how the Bloomberg
administration's plans borrow selectively from Moses' and Jacobs'
writing, Larson lays bare the contradictions buried in such
rhetoric and argues that there can be no equitable solution to the
social and economic goals for redevelopment in New York City with
such a strategy.a
"Building Like Moses with Jacobs in Mind" offers a lively
critique that shows how the legacies of these two planners have
been interpretedOCoand reinterpretedOCoover time and with the
evolution of urban space. Ultimately, he makes the case that
neither figure offers a meaningful model for addressing stubborn
problemsOCopoverty, lack of affordable housing, and segregation
along class and racial linesOCothat continue to vex today's
cities.
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