The High Line

Cities around the world are finding that turning industrial ruins into green public space is far more cost effective and fun than tearing them down.

Architect Ronald Rael proposes preserving the discarded span of the San Francisco Bay Bridge and turning it into a park and mixed-use development, in the spirit of NY's High Line.

A new report claims that Central Park in New York added $1 billion to the economy in 2007, and the new High Line park added $4 billion in new real estate developments.

David Brewster can image four possible locations in Seattle where a High Line-style blight-to-park revitalization could occur.