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new york's high line
Everybody Wants a High Line
With the success of the High Line park in New York City, it seems almost every city now wants one. Toronto has long been batting around ideas for its Gardiner expressway, while Los Angeles is trying to dream up the money for new parks to cap old freeways. Philadelphia is moving forward with reusing parts of its old rail infrastructure...[read more]
Land Matters: Where Do I Play?
What makes a successful public space, the design or the program? Of course, programmers believe it’s the program and designers believe it’s the design, and the debate reverberates throughout our profession and in the pages of this issue. In reality, the answer is “everything”: location, constituency, quality of materials, and, yes,...[read more]
Sustainable Cities Collective
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“I admire Gehl's work a lot, and wish more people in my profession (landscape architecture) would read Cities for People. Gehl has a new book coming out in October called How to Study Public Life.”
“Melbourne is a really beautiful city, so it's not surprising that they become number 1. The South African cities are ranking pretty badly; I do believe that a sustainable development within the next decades is highly important for its population. We’re currently seeing the trend of urbanization, meaning that lots of people are moving to the cities in hope of jobs. Siemens, for instance, have ...”