Research Catalog

Title

On the High Line : exploring America's most original urban park / by Annik La Farge ; preface, additional text, and photographs, Rick Darke ; principal photography, Scott Mlyn, Juan Valentin ; art direction and design, Lorraine Ferguson.

Author

La Farge, Annik

Publication

New York, New York : Thames & Hudson, 2014.

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Additional Authors

• Darke, Rick
• Mlyn, Scott
• Valentin, Juan (Photographer)

Description

226 pages : illustrations (some color), maps (chiefly color); 25 cm

Summary

On the High Line, first published in 2012, is an engaging guide to everything a visitor sees when strolling through the park: the innovative gardens and their thousands of native and exotic plant species; the architecture, both old and new, industrial and residential; and a neighborhood whose colorful history includes the birth of the railroad, the Manhattan Project, S&M clubs, and the legendary Tenth Avenue Cowboy. In 2014, the final half-mile section of the park will open, and visitors will encounter a very different High Line experience: stunning vistas of the Hudson River; a birds-eye view of the trains in the working Hudson Rail Yards; and the original, self-sown landscape that emerged in the abandoned rail bed and inspired the High Line's early champions. Striking new views of the city will be opened throughout. The updated edition includes sixteen new pages devoted to the final section of the park, with original photography, design renderings, and a new essay by Rick Darke. The book has also been updated throughout to reflect dozens of changes in the neighborhood since first publication.

Subjects

• High Line (New York, N.Y. : Park) > Guidebooks
• Stadtpark
• Urban parks > New York (State) > New York > Guidebooks
• New York (N.Y.) > History
• New York, NY
• New York (N.Y.) > Guidebooks
• Manhattan (New York, N.Y.) > Guidebooks
• High Line

Note

• "Fully updated & revised plus the High Line at the Rail Yards"--Cover
• Avery Classics copy: Gift of Selma Senft to support the advanced study of architecture and urbanism in New York.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 220-222) and index.

ISBN

• 9780500291412 (pbk.)
• 0500291411 (pbk.)

LCCN

2013950863

OCLC

• ocn904942376
• 904942376
• SCSB-5786392

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries