[The High Line] Summary and Recommendations
As a redefinition of a public space, the High Line is a successful project for urban revitalization through design and community engagement, with definitive means for sustainability. It demonstrates how abandoned infrastructures can be reused and regenerated in ways beneficial to the economy and environment, and even more importantly, the community.
[The High Line] Building Social Capacity for Sustainability
The High Line is most commonly known for its success as either an urban renewal project or a development for a public open space, but it is much more than that. As an education, health and culture targeted development, the project answers to these goals by providing for the whole community, encouraging public engagement and stewardship of the High Line.
[The High Line] Community Context, Social Justice and Leveraging Resources
The High Line is the result of collaborative partnerships between organizations and institutions, mostly coming from the local community, that have worked together to create a project beneficial to all those involved. Throughout the project, not only have these groups strived together to earn grants and funding, but have also negotiated through a number of policies and authorizations to advance the construction of the High Line.
[The High Line] Directly Meeting Needs
The High Line project is a result of the very Sustainability Skill of Social Engagement. Bringing together different insights, perspectives and knowledge, the project has brought into consideration the concerns of various disciplines and professions that are involved with the project. The case aims to meet the needs of all those concerned with the implementation, the construction and the final use.
[The High Line] Sustainability Literacy Skills
Awarded 2010 Professional Awards by the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) as well as Design Award for Urban Design by the American Institute for Architects (AIA), the High Line demonstrates its enormous success and acknowledgement in the design disciplines. Not only because it has displayed its design skills but also its sustainability literacy skills, shown through its awareness for the built environment, its precedent history and its community, which are all conducive to the High Line’s vision for sustainability.
The High line has promoted success in urban regeneration and adaptive use using skills for Appropriate Technology and Appropriate Design, including Permaculture Design, and largely incorporating means of Ecological Intelligence.
[The High Line] Overview
Winding through the west side of the city for more than 20 blocks, stretching from the historical Meatpacking district, through the West Chelsea art gallery neighborhood and finally making its way to 34th street, New York City’s High Line Park’s redefinition of a public space has increasingly gained its reputation as the Central Park of the 21st Century.
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