TY - BOOK ED - Friends of the High Line. ED - Field Operations (Firm). ED - Diller Scofidio + Renfro. TI - Designing the High Line: Gansevoort Street to 30th Street SN - 9780615211916 AV - F128.67.H54 F75 2008 PY - 2008/// CY - New York : PB - Friends of the High Line KW - Parks KW - New York (State) KW - New York KW - Planning KW - Local KW - Architecture KW - Competitions KW - 21st century KW - Viaducts KW - Recreational use KW - Railroads, Elevated KW - Urban landscape architecture KW - Landscape architecture KW - Urban beautifications KW - Greenways KW - High Line (New York, N.Y.) KW - New York N.Y KW - Buildings, structures, etc N1 - INTRODUCTION -- Friends of the High Line -- Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg -- New York City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn -- Manhattan Borough President Scott M. Stringer -- Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton -- Representative Jerrold L Nadler -- Parks & Recreation Commissioner Adrian Benepe -- History: 1847-2006 -- DESIGN: CONCEPT -- James Corner and Ricardo Scofidio -- Competition Entry -- Design Principles -- DESIGN: SECTION 1 -- Gansevoort Street / 13th Street -- 13th Street / 17th Street -- 17th Street / 20th Street -- DESIGN: SECTION 2 -- 20th Street / 24th Street -- 24th Street / 27th Street -- 27th Street / 30th Street -- DETAIL DEVELOPMENT -- Planking-- Peel-up Bench -- Planting -- Lighting -- Rail Track Reinstallation -- Historic Railing Restoration -- Construction -- SECTION 3: RAIL YARDS -- CREDITS -- PROJECT TEAM -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS N2 - The High Line was built in New York city in the 1930s as part of a massive public-private infrastructure project called the West Side Improvement. It lifted freight traffic 30 feet in the air, removing dangerous trains from the streets of Manhattan's largest industrial district. No trains have run on the High Line since 1980 and it was under threat of demolition when, in 1999, Friends of the High Line, a community-based non-profit group was formed. Working in partnership with the City of New York, the organization has worked to preserve and maintain the structure as an elevated public park. They held a competition to redesign this space for open public use and this book describes the winners' design ideas. It includes design renderings, maps, and photographs depicting the High Line from its construction in the 1930s through its current re-construction into New York City's new public space. When all sections are complete, the High Line will be a mile-and-a-half-long elevated park, running through the West Side neighborhoods of the Meatpacking District, West Chelsea and Clinton/Hell's Kitchen. It features an integrated landscape, combining meandering concrete pathways with naturalistic plantings ER -