From urban scar to ‘park in the sky’: terrain vague , urban design, and the remaking of New York City’s High Line Park
研究了纽约高线公园从废弃铁路到热门景点的转变，分析其设计如何引发关于绅士化、废弃地创意潜力与城市治理的争议，提醒警惕将废弃空间视为对自由市场治理的天然批判。
This paper considers New York City’s High Line Park, a linear stretch of green space situated on a discontinued railroad track in Manhattan. Unveiled in 2009, the High Line has become one of the most visited tourist sites in the city, but critics have called attention to its role in the gentrification of its surrounding neighborhoods and ties to extensive real estate development in the region. More specifically, many critics have focused on the project’s dramatic redesign of the site’s accidental landscape, which was a product of decades of abandonment and spontaneous plant growth. Drawing from contemporary literature that sees urban wastelands as sites of creative possibility, these critics have mourned the contemporary High Line’s redesign for its rejection of a space that offered more creative possibility. At the same time, the park’s designers themselves have argued that the redesigned park preserves the site’s transgressive spirit through purposeful design elements. In this paper, I analyze these conversations and consider how differing ideas about design and accidental urban nature are being engaged with by critics of the park. I celebrate criticisms of the park’s role in gentrification, but caution against the idea that abandoned urban spaces offer an implicit critique to neoliberal urban governance.