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High Line: The Inside Story of New York City's Park in the Sky (2000) — Forfatter — 119 eksemplarer
Reclaiming the High Line (2002) 14 eksemplarer

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A bit of a glossy coffee table book crossed with the history of this recently restored piece of Manhattan infrastructure into an unconventional park and tourist attraction. As you might expect for a quintessentially New York project, this is filled with name dropping, from fashion design to politics, and it becomes challenging to keep track. It was inspiring at points, and the photography is a lovely complement to the story.
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jonerthon | 1 anden anmeldelse | Dec 12, 2021 |
The fourth of the four books I own on New York's High Line is the elevated park's "inside story" from the founders of the Friends of the High Line. Joshua David and Robert Hammond's story of how they met (at a community meeting where they were the only people in attendance who wanted to keep the derelict railway) is now legendary, and it is just one of many stories recounted in the book. The process of what they did to save the infrastructure on Manhattan's West Side and transform it into a park is recounted in conversational texts in the book's first half. Most of it is candid (some of it TMI), and it does a great job of giving even more background into the highly successful park; their oral history is particularly helpful for me, since I give architectural walking tours of the High Line. The second half of the book is made up of photos: historical, competition entries, construction shots, and many photos of the completed park. This part could have been slimmed down considerably, but the images surely make the book more appealing as a memento to the tourists and other visitors that flock to the park.… (mere)
 
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archidose | 1 anden anmeldelse | Feb 1, 2017 |
The other day I was thinking about how many books I have devoted to specific projects – case studies, in other words. I have a lot, but surprisingly I have four of them on one project: the High Line. The first one I bought on the phenomenally successful project on Manhattan's West Side predates the elevated railway's transformation into a park by seven years. Reclaiming the High Line was a three-year study (1999-2002) by New York's Design Trust for Public Space, in which the non-profit "conducted a comprehensive feasibility study and outlined recommendations for the reuse of the elevated railway as public open space." The book presents a history of what is now known as the High Line, depicts its existing conditions, makes recommendations for reuse, and evaluates the different options. The book that came out of the study predates the design competition for the park, so it's Joel Sternfeld's photos (such as the one on the cover) that anchor the text, not the renderings by Field Operations, Diller Scofidio + Renfro, and Piet Oudolf that became the symbol of the park in the coming years. Although the book, practical as it needs to be, is a bit dry at times, I find it extremely helpful for the walking tours of the High Line that I give a few times a year. It's also valuable to be able to look back to a time when the elevated park was easy to imagine — but hardly a guarantee.… (mere)
 
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archidose | Jan 9, 2017 |

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