The High Line, an innovative promenade created on a disused elevated railway in Manhattan, is one of the world's most iconic new urban landmarks. Deconstructing the High Line is the first book to analyse the High Line from multiple perspectives, critically assessing its aesthetic, economic, ecological, symbolic, and social impacts.

List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
High Line Timeline

Introduction: From Elevated Railway to Urban Park
Brian Rosa and Christoph Lindner

Part I    Envisioning the High Line
Chapter 1    Hunt’s Haunts
James Corner
Chapter 2    Community Engagement, Equity, and the High Line
Danya Sherman
Chapter 3    Loving the High Line: Infrastructure, Architecture, and the Politics of Space in the Mediated City
Alan Smart

Part II    Gentrification and the Neoliberal City
Chapter 4    Parks for Profit: Public Space and Inequality in New York City
Kevin Loughran
Chapter 5    Parks (In)Equity
Julian Brash
Chapter 6    Retro-Walking New York
Christoph Lindner

Part III    Urban Political Ecologies
Chapter 7    The Garden on the Machine
Tom Baker
Chapter 8    The Urban Sustainability Fix and the Rise of the Conservancy Park
Phil Birge-Liberman
Chapter 9    Of Success and Succession: A Queer Urban Ecology of the High Line
Darren J. Patrick

Part IV    The High Line Effect
Chapter 10    A High Line for Queens: Celebrating Diversity or Displacing It?
Scott Larson
Chapter 11    Programming Difference on Rotterdam’s Hofbogen
Daan Wesselman
Chapter 12    Public Space and Terrain Vague on São Paulo’s Minhocão: The High Line in Translation
Nate Millington

Bibliography
Notes on Contributors
Index

 

CHRISTOPH LINDNER is a professor and dean of architecture and allied arts at the University of Oregon in Eugene. His recent books include Imagining New York City: Literature, Urbanism, and the Visual Arts, as well as the edited volumes Global Garbage, Inert Cities, and Paris-Amsterdam Underground.

BRIAN ROSA is an assistant professor of urban studies (Queens College) and geography (The Graduate Center) at the City University of New York.