The High Line

Just as Witold Rybczynski declares New York's High Line un-copyable, St. Louis announces plans for a linear park on top of an old railroad trestle

May 19, 2011 - St. Louis Post Dispatch

Witold Rybczynski thinks not, saying that the success of the project's "landscape urbanism" is its remarkably dense and urban setting, not the hip design and landscaping.

May 17, 2011 - The New York Times

December 13, 2010 - Lynn Vande Stouwe

Monocle magazine interviews James Corner, the landscape architect responsible for New York's lauded high line and recent winner of Cooper Hewitt Award for best landscape architect.

July 24, 2010 - Monocle

The High Line park in New York has been an enormous success, attracting 2 million visitors so far. Tom Topousis got to take a tour of the 2nd section of the park under construction, stretching from 20th to 30th Sts.

July 8, 2010 - The New York Post

The new park takes an old waterfront park and connects it with previously inaccessible space to create an 85-acre site stretching 1.3 miles along the waterfront.

March 6, 2010 - Design Trust blog

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.

November 11, 2009 - The Walrus

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.

September 10, 2009 - Streetsblog SF

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.

August 28, 2009 - ASLA's The Dirt blog

Managing Editor Tim Halbur reviews The High Line, the much-lauded new linear park in Manhattan.

July 2, 2009 - Tim Halbur

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

June 12, 2009 - Crosscut.com