Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Parkland Walk NYC Stylee
About a decade ago an used elevated rail track in New York City was slated fro development. Ten years on the work of two visionaries and a whole heap of other folk have turned that derelict space into an unrivalled civic amenity for New York.
I've added three videos below. The first, by the friends of the High Line traces the development of the park in the sky. The second is from a local group and the third from Time. They give a good sense of the finished article.
The High Line website
Thanks to Clive Carter for the heads up on this one.
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Permalink Reply by John D on
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Reminiscent of our own Mile End Park :-) ( which I have been meaning to visit for yeeeears )
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Permalink Reply by John McMullan on
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For a minute I thought you said "Hugh line".
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Permalink Reply by matt on
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And then there's the recycling of a couple of tube trains at Great Eastern St: Village Underground
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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The concept of the linear park has intrigued me for several years.
I don't think it's detracting in any way from the vision of New Yorkers and the High Line to point out that at least part of the inspiration came from Paris and La Promenade Plantée. (Also called “La Coulée Verte”) a 4.5 km linear park built on a former railway viaduct. Here's the Wikipedia Link. And a slideshow by a couple living in Paris.
Of course, Haringey has its own linear park - The Parkland Walk - also created from a disused railway line. Here's the Friends Group website.
To take another example which many people will have enjoyed, one of the treasures of Edinburgh is Princes Street Gardens, originally a loch; used as a midden; and now a kilometre long park, below the Castle and Old Town.
One of the ideas I took from these various examples is that in building a Green Chain - in Frederick Law Olmsted 's term the emerald necklace of Boston - the aim is to create new, and to link existing green spaces. Not to drive roads and tracks through them for the benefit of property developers.
Zena and I recently visited the Serpentine Gallery summer Pavilion in Kensington Gardens. I'd never realised that from the Serpentine bridge there's a hardly interrupted green chain across central London. It also struck me how far it's taken it for granted that in a city like London these Royal parks will be maintained to a very high standard. And no doubt that the required funding levels will be maintained.
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