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The High Line competition proposal, board 1.
The High Line as an incubator for existing grassroots interest groups. The proposal retains the landscape and rail infrastructure while engaging community, private organizations, and city agencies to develop a process to guide its transformation into a public park.
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ABOUT THE ESSAY
Metaphor Remediation: A New Ecology for the CityCities are the new frontiers green living, and Andrew Blum argues that we need to revise the old metaphors: will Half Dome give way to the high-rise as the new emblem of environmentalism?
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Andrew Blum is an independent journalist based in Brooklyn, New York.More Bio >>
