Wednesday 29 February 2012

LowLine: An Underground Park on NYC's Lower East Side

New York designers plans to transform an abandoned trolley terminal on the Lower East Side of Manhattan into the world’s first underground park using green design technologies, like fiber optic cables to bring natural sunlight underground

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4 comments:

  1. Lev3 March 2012 at 13:26

    why is a gimmick needed to get people to use parks? I thought the same of the highline. All that money could have been spent on many other public spaces and social resources. Instead there is the large sceptical of an urban installation. wierd

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  2. Lev3 March 2012 at 13:29

    although it completely fits with the delirious New York spirit, creating artificial entertainments in places where they shouldn't be.

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  3. Liam Morrisey25 March 2012 at 17:13

    It also fits with Jane Jacobs proposed insertion of a theme park/circus in Downtown Manhattan to give people a reason to got there outside of usual office hours. A wider argument could then be, what is the value in using all parts of the city in the same way?

    Localised funding is curious, how is it any better than centralised, surely wider disparities will exist across different projects and areas, fiefdoms are created with little standardisation and, therefore, transferable use of resources. One opinion of many I'm sure.

    P.s. 5:26 AM, wow!

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  4. Lara26 March 2012 at 11:04

    It would be interesting to do a financial study into how much the highline cost, and the effect on surround real estate prices that could be linked with highline investment, against your average public realm investment projects and subsequent effect. I think we need a bit of everything to make the city tick. Its just a shame that not more emphasis is put on the everyday projects, that have the potential to do a lot more for the city.

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