Thursday 11 October 2012

BBC article on the High Line

New York's High Line: Why cities want parks in the sky


As is widely know.... In August 1999, local architectural enthusiasts Joshua David and Robert Hammond went along to a public meeting to discuss the future of the High Line.
Within months the two New Yorkers - variously described as total amateurs and neighbourhood nobodies - founded the Friends of the High Line, a charity that has gone on to transform the abandoned railway line into a wildly successful new kind of public space - part-beach, part-park, and part-promenade.

Includes an interview with Robert Hammond, co-founder of the High Line.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19872874

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