High Line : the inside story of New York City's park in the sky / Joshua David and Robert Hammond.

Main entry:

David, Joshua, 1963-

Title & Author:

High Line : the inside story of New York City's park in the sky / Joshua David and Robert Hammond.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publication:

New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.

Description:

xi, 339 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes index.
Time line : 1847-1999 -- High Line. Mile and a half ; Friends of the High Line ; Rails to trails ; Strategy session ; Demolition? ; At City Hall ; Under the Fence tour ; Ideas for the High Line ; City planning ; Four teams, four visions ; Raise the money ; Railbanked! "I saved the High Line" ; Rail yards ; Why should they turn it over to us? ; Cutting the ribbon.

Summary:

Chronicles the successful ten-year effort on the part of two young entrepreneurs to have the ruins of the High Line elevated train structure converted to a park for public use on the West Side of Manhattan, with illustrations of the structure's design and landscape.

ISBN:

9780374532994 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0374532990 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Park, Thomas 1759-1834
Nutzungsänderung
Byer.
Parkanlegg.
New York (By)
Arkitektur.
Bysosiologi.
Parker historia Förenta staterna New York.
High Line (New York, N.Y. : Park) History.
New York (N.Y.) History.
Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) History.
High Line (New York, N.Y. : Parc) Histoire.
New York (N.Y.) Histoire.
New York (State) New York.
New York (State) New York High Line (Park)
New York (State) New York Manhattan.
New York- Manhattan
High Line (New York, N.Y.) History.

Form/genre:

Nonfiction.
History.

Added entries:

Hammond, Robert, 1969-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 275536
Call No.: BIB 209806
Status: Available

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