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Core Question 1: In how far does this project reveal your concept of future landscapes?

This project reveals the future of urban landscapes. The mixture of adaptive reuse of and urban jungle of concrete and highways.

This project combines both function and the over use of highways and concrete and creates a harmonious environment that would normally be chaotic.

Landscape and/or urban context

• Biogeography, cultural features, overall character, history and dynamics

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Cultural/social/political context

• Brief explanation of culture, political economy, legal framework

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Spatial analysis of area/project/plan

• What are the main structural features?
• How has it been shaped? Were there any critical decisions?

Before it was turned into a park, the line was a riveted steel elevated structure with wild grasses, plants, shrubs, and rugged trees that grew along most of the route. Currently the park's attractions include naturalized plantings that are inspired by the self-seeded landscape that grew on the disused tracks and new, often unexpected views of the city and the Hudson River. Pebble-dash concrete walkways unify the trail, which swells and constricts, swinging from side to side, and divides into concrete tines that meld the hardscape with the planting embedded in railroad gravel mulch. Stretches of track and ties recall the High Line's former use. Most of the planting, which includes 210 species, is of rugged meadow plants, including clump-forming grasses, liatris and coneflowers.

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Analysis of program/function

• What are the main functional characteristics?
• How have they been expressed or incorporated?

Highline park functions as a platform for taking in the sights of lower and midtown Manhattan, auspiciously relying on the local architecture. Imagine it as a stroll through a sculpture garden, but the sculptures are the size of buildings. In a sense it is the most viscerally dual-purpose, built landscape that exist in New York City. On the one hand it is a highly design plinth for the viewing of NYC architecture. On the other, it is a lowly, industrial structure, re-invisioned as a metaphor for a car-less NYC.

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Analysis of design/planning process

• How was the area/project/plan formulated and implemented?
• Were there any important consultations/collaborations?

The High Line was originally constructed in the 1930s, to lift dangerous freight trains off Manhattan's streets and has since been converted to 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, designed by landscape, combining meandering concrete pathways with naturalistic plantings. Fixed and movable seating, lighting, and special features are also included in the park. Access points from street level will be located every two to three blocks. Many of these access points will include elevators, and all will include stairs.

The construction process of the highline was broken into 3 phases. The first phase is to remove all existing surface material on the structure, including gravel ballast, soil, debris and a layer of concrete, down to the steel and concrete structure. After removals, repairs to the steel and concrete are made, new drainage and waterproofing installed, and all steel surfaces of the High Line structure are sandblasted to remove the original lead paint. The final phase in the High Line's transition to a public park was the construction of the park landscape.

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Analysis of use/users

• How is the area/project/plan used and by whom?
• Is the use changing? Are there any issues?

The highline has created an alternative space for people to gather and socialize and serve the many functions of a park most importantly as a main transportation transect across the city. This style and approach to restoring and reviving abandoned urban infrastructure allows for a new solution for cities and urban spaces that are declining. It is a new approach for the future of cities and is an example that brings green to cities.

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Core Question 2: What is the role of landscape architecture in this project?

The highline is a really a significant project that represents the landscape urbanism movement done by James Corner that is trying to achieve a mix both architecture and landscape architecture. It is culturally trying to give the people and visitors of New York an attractive, usable and practical green space and environmental project that restores brown field and unused and outdated infrastructure. It is an innovative use of adding green to a city which is an exemplary example of a future landscape because it supports the positive reclaiming of abandoned urban environments and succeeds in promoting a new habitable space that is overwhelmingly needed in many urban areas. The Highline is a new landscape typology, making it not purely architecture and not purely landscape which is critical in allowing for re-engineering of the old use in the urban framework of a city. The site is not only aesthetically powerful but it is ecologically sound, and is preserving the cultural history of the highline of NYC.

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