New York has always reminded me of futuristic cityscape of Metropolis with its overpases and highways. I thought how nice it would be if there were passeges between building, windows, teracces that would allow dwellers to get places withough ever interacting with foot or car traffic.
High Line Narratives
Escape. High Line provides an escape from rapidly growing and ever changing environment of the city. Forced to live within constrains of cinder blocks, the park serves a comfortable place ot get away.
Attempting to escape these large, oblivious to human scale creations, people adapt High Line's manmade structures to become friendlier by serving as shelters, provide private gathering space or little sanctuaries engaging in humanizing the area.
Sanctuaries also provide a great scenario for a date in a form of a scenic walk where lovers would pass through a overgrown tonels of trees, meet the sunset or imagine themselves Maria and Tony from the West Side Story.
The park also educates the city dwellers about their environment by exposing them to the viriety of plant species that were once commonly grown in the area, but got pushed out by the development. Longing for nature is satisfied via different forms of tamed elements like urban stream, overgrown tree tunnels and thriving wheat.
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