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How smart is a ‘smart city’?
Published in David Thorpe, ‘One Planet’ Cities, 2019
Self-selecting groups do frequently use technology to get momentum behind a project, however. The High Line is often given as an example of an iconic piece of urban, walkable green space. It is a 1.45-mile-long elevated linear park, greenway and rail trail created on a former New York Central Railroad spur on the west side of Manhattan. It would not have happened without substantial public campaigning. The organiser used the crowdsourcing fundraising website Kickstarter to establish support and raise $100,000, making an offer to the administration that it did not refuse, and allowing the project to bypass the restrictions of the planning system. Although a desirable outcome was reached, the High Line has been criticised as a development for educated, well-off, middle-class people – and all views need to be heard.
The queensway of New York city. A proposal for sustainable mobility in queens
Published in Michèle Pezzagno, Maurizio Tira, Town and Infrastructure Planning for Safety and Urban Quality, 2018
C. Ignaccolo, N. Giuffrida, V. Torrisi
In recent years an outstanding example of greenway promoted by a bottom-up process is the High Line, a linear park built in Manhattan on an elevated section of a disused New York Central Railroad. In 1999, the nonprofit organization Friends of the High Line was formed by 2 residents of the neighborhood that the line ran through, advocating for the line’s preservation and reuse as public open space. The High Line is inherently a green structure: it winds between buildings and constitutes a green elevated walk-path with spaces to stay and to relax in a no-green fully urbanized area. Furthermore, there is a good relationship with some requalified adjacent buildings having a new modified destination of use (Fig. 2a and b).
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Published in Maria Matos Silva, Public Spaces for Water, 2019
For over three decades, the Cheonggyecheon river was confined underground, over which passed a multi-lane roadway and an elevated highway. By the year 2000, strong structural fragilities of the speedway viaduct were identified. The costs for its recovery were considerable, and as such Seoul City Government considered the alternatives. In a political venture, Mayor Lee Myung-bak proposed not to invest in the renovation of the traffic infrastructure but rather on the restoration of the river’s flow. In two years, the river was exposed and turned into a 5.8 km of linear park, which now crosses the city center. Among the resulting benefits is the improved capacity to sustain a flow rate of 118 mm/hr and flood protection for up to a 200-year flood event (Kwon, 2007).
Waterways transformation and green stormwater infrastructure: enabling governance for Adelaide’s River Torrens Catchment, Australia
Published in International Journal of Water Resources Development, 2023
Alhassan Ibrahim, Katharine Bartsch, Ehsan Sharifi
These challenges led to the implementation of integrated stormwater management, comprising multiple elements of GSI such as interconnected parks, wetlands and riparian buffers, over several years. Most of these elements were strategically interconnected to form the River Torrens Linear Park (RTLP), which is approximately 30 km2 in area, stretching 70 km along both sides of the Torrens River (Mugavin, 2004).