onsdag, mars 30, 2011

The High Line

er i aprilnummeret til National Geographic

Walking on the High Line is unlike any other experience in New York. You float about 25 feet above the ground, at once connected to street life and far away from it. Det var et togspor som fraktet kjøtt og industrivarer over gateplanet på nedre venstrebredd av Manhattan, nå en park, bygd opp med planter og trær som likner det som hadde vokst opp etter mange år med ubruk, en slags fortettet versjon av det som var.



Until recently the High Line was, in fact, an urban relic, and a crumbling one at that. Many of its neighbors, as well as New York's mayor for much of the 1990s, Rudolph Giuliani, couldn't wait to tear it down. His administration, aware that Chelsea was gentrifying into a neighborhood of galleries, restaurants, and loft living, felt the surviving portion of the High Line (..) was an ugly deadweight.

But the real heroes of the story are two men who met for the first time at a community meeting on the future of the line in 1999. Joshua David was then 36, a freelance writer who lived on West 21st Street, not far from the midsection of the High Line. Robert Hammond, an artist who worked for start-up tech companies to earn a living, was 29 and lived in Greenwich Village a few blocks from the southern terminus.

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It didn't hurt that Michael Bloomberg, who succeeded Giuliani, had a sympathetic view of saving the High Line. Bloomberg, a billionaire who had long been a major donor to the city's cultural institutions, offered support for the High Line plan.

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5 Kommentarer:

Blogger Tonita sa ...

I Paris er det en superfin park-spaservei godt over bakkenivå, noe à la The High Line: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Promenade_plant%C3%A9e

01 april, 2011 17:52  
Blogger fr.martinsen sa ...

Ja! Den er nevnt i artikkelen jeg refererer til også:

Not long before, an abandoned rail line in eastern Paris, near the Place de la Bastille, had been turned into a highly successful linear park called the Promenade Plantée, which gave the group's idea for the High Line a serious precedent.

Although Parisian models don't transfer easily into New York, the existence of the Promenade Plantée did a lot to increase the credibility of David and Hammond's crusade. They began to think their idea of turning the High Line into a new kind of public place might be achievable.

02 april, 2011 16:31  
Blogger i1277 sa ...

I Bangkok har de visst et marked på skinnegangen til en toglinje i drift.

05 april, 2011 23:13  
Blogger Skorpionkvinnen sa ...

The High Line er spennende byutvikling/fornying. Vi gikk tur der i desember 2009, nesten helt alene...underlig. Nå er den utvidet, jeg vil gjerne gå tur der igjen snart :-)

06 april, 2011 11:14  
Blogger fr.martinsen sa ...

For en nydelig film! Takk for den.

07 april, 2011 09:37  

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