Introduction: From Elevated Railway to Urban Park

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. List of Figures and Tables vii
4. High Line Timeline ix
5. Introduction: From Elevated Railway to Urban Park 1
6. Part I: Envisioning the High Line
7. 1. Hunt’s Haunts 23
8. 2. Community Engagement, Equity, and the High Line 28
9. 3. Loving the High Line: Infrastructure, Architecture, and the Politics of Space in the Mediated City 41
10. Part II: Gentrification and the Neoliberal City
11. 4. Parks for Profit: Public Space and Inequality in New York City 61
12. 5. Park (In)Equity 73
13. 6. Retro-Walking New York 92
14. Part III: Urban Political Ecologies
15. 7. The Garden on the Machine 109
16. 8. The Urban Sustainability Fix and the Rise of the Conservancy Park 125
17. 9. Of Success and Succession: A Queer Urban Ecology of the High Line 141
18. Part IV: The High Line Effect
19. 10. A High Line for Queens: Celebrating Diversity or Displacing It? 169
20. 11. Programming Difference on Rotterdam’s Hofbogen 185
21. 12. Public Space and Terrain Vague on São Paulo’s Minhocão: The High Line in Translation 201
22. Acknowledgments 219
23. Bibliography 221
24. Notes on Contributors 245
25. Index 249