 |
|
|
Item Details
| Title:
|
HIGH LINE
THE INSIDE STORY OF NEW YORK CITY'S PARK IN THE SKY |
| By: |
Joshua David, Robert Hammond |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
|
£21.99 |
|
We currently do not stock this item, please contact the publisher directly for
further information.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ISBN 10: |
0374532990 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780374532994 |
| Publisher: |
FARRAR, STRAUS & GIROUX INC |
| Pub. date: |
11 October, 2011 |
| Pages: |
339 |
| Description: |
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. |
| Synopsis: |
How two New Yorkers led the transformation of a derelict elevated railway into a grand and beloved open space The High Line, a new park atop an ele-vated 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 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. Joshua David and Robert Hammond met in 1999 at a community board meeting to consider the fate of the High Line. Built in the 1930s, it carried freight trains to the West Side when the area was defined by factories and warehouses. But when trains were replaced by truck transport, the High Line became obsolete. By century's end it was a rusty, forbidding ruin. Plants grew between the tracks, giving it a wild and striking beauty.David and Hammond loved the ruin and saw in it an opportunity to create a new way to experience their city. Over ten years, they did so. In this candid and inspiring book lavishly illustrated they tell how they relied on skill, luck, and good timing: a crucial court ruling, an inspiring design contest, the enthusiasm of Mayor Bloomberg, the concern for urban planning issues following 9/11. Now the High Line a half-mile expanse of plants, paths, staircases, and framed vistas runs through a transformed West Side and reminds us that extraordinary things are possible when creative people work together for the common good." |
| Illustrations: |
black & white illustrations, colour illustrations, black & white line |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
No Cheese, Please!
A fun picture book for children with food allergies - full of friendship and super-cute characters!Little Mo the mouse is having a birthday party.
|
My Brother Is a Superhero
Luke is massively annoyed about this, but when Zack is kidnapped by his arch-nemesis, Luke and his friends have only five days to find him and save the world...
|
|
|
|
|