Reclaiming the High Line

by Joshua David

The Design Trust for Public Space's June 2001 forum on the High Line was a major step toward understanding and productively channeling the concerns of interested parties, and laying out the issues and positions surrounding state and local government support. This booklet summarizes the conclusions of the forum, assesses the development issues then facing the High Line, and outlines next steps. As a result of this forum, the Design Trust and Friends of the High Line partnered on Reclaiming the High Line, a research project to understand the challenges of the site and develop a design vision for the railway's reclamation.

92 pages, Perfect Paperback

Reviews

[Dan Lalande]

The improbable story of NYC's hottest urban reclamation project, the elevated walkway known as The High Line, recounted in a two-man oral history by its founders. It's an affirmation of endless "ity"'s: tenacity, community, generosity, celebrity and sweat equity - oh, and photography, with its generous section of past and present photos.