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February 2, 2012
Robert Hammond
High Line: New York City’s Park in the Sky
The High Line, a new public park atop an abandoned, elevated rail line on Manhattan’s West Side, is among the most innovative urban reclamation projects in memory. Robert Hammond, Co-Founder of Friends of the High Line, will share the story of its creation. A remarkable community collaboration: neighbors, elected officials, artists, local business owners, and leaders of burgeoning movements in horticulture and landscape architecture came together to create a park celebrated worldwide as a model for creatively designed, socially vibrant, and ecologically sound public space.
With support from ArtsEngine, Living Arts and the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning.
Video
Selected Bibliography
- Interview With Robert Hammond, The Man Who Saved The High Line.
- AIGA | Video: Robert Hammond.
- Robert Hammond: Building a park in the sky | Video on TED.com.
- Robert Hammond - 2008 - 40 Under Forty | Crain’s New York Business.
- Robert Hammond | The High Line.
- David, Joshua. 2011. High Line: the inside story of New York City’s park in the sky. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
- Kovaleski, Serge F. 2009. “With Success of High Line, Dual Rewards for Executive.” The New York Times, August 26, sec. New York Region.
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