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Can I read High Line : the inside story of New York City's park in the sky on EtoBox?
High Line : the inside story of New York City's park in the sky by Joshua David and Robert Hammond is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is High Line : the inside story of New York City's park in the sky about?
How two New Yorkers led the transformation of a derelict elevated railway into a grandand belovedopen 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 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 thei
Who reads High Line : the inside story of New York City's park in the sky?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Joshua David and Robert Hammond
- Publisher
- New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780374532994
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Fiction, Travel, History
- Rating
- 3.96 / 5 (171 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13