{"id":11411,"date":"2015-03-03T15:45:39","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T15:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sds.parsons.edu\/designurbanecologies\/?p=11411"},"modified":"2015-03-03T15:45:39","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T15:45:39","slug":"deconstructing-the-high-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/parsons.edu\/urban\/2015\/03\/03\/deconstructing-the-high-line\/","title":{"rendered":"DECONSTRUCTING THE HIGH LINE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sds.parsons.edu\/designurbanecologies\/files\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-03-at-10.35.04-AM.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11412\" src=\"http:\/\/sds.parsons.edu\/designurbanecologies\/files\/2015\/03\/Screen-Shot-2015-03-03-at-10.35.04-AM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-03-03 at 10.35.04 AM\" width=\"797\" height=\"519\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday, March 5th, 5:00-8:00pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>The New School, Wollman Hall, 65 W. 11th St., 5th Fl.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The High Line, an innovative promenade created on a disused elevated railway in Manhattan, is widely recognized as among the most iconic urban landmarks of the 21st century. It has stimulated public interest in landscape design while simultaneously re-integrating an industrial relic into the everyday life of New York City. Since its opening in 2009, this unique greenway has exceeded expectations in terms of attracting visitors, investment, and property development to Manhattan\u2019s West Side, and is widely celebrated as a monument to community-led activism, adaptive re-use of urban infrastructure, and innovative ecological design. It has also inspired a worldwide proliferation of similar proposals seeking to capitalize on the repurposing of disused urban infrastructure for postindustrial revitalization.<\/p>\n<p>Providing a much-needed critical perspective, this interdisciplinary symposium will interrogate the High Line\u2019s relation to public space, creative practice, urban renewal, ecology, and public policy. The event brings together scholars and practitioners from urban studies, geography, cultural analysis, art, and architecture.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>First Panel: The Contexts of an Elevated Urbanism<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Joseph Heathcott, Moderator<\/p>\n<p>Urbanist at The New School<\/p>\n<p>Christoph Lindner<\/p>\n<p>Cultural theorist at University of Amsterdam and editor of the book series \u201cCities and Cultures\u201d for the university\u2019s press<\/p>\n<p>\u015eevin Yildiz<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Professor of Architecture at Barnard College and Columbia University<\/p>\n<p>Erika Svendsen<\/p>\n<p>Research social scientist for the U.S. Forest Service<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Second Panel: The High Line from Neighborhood to Global Stage<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brian Rosa, Moderator<\/p>\n<p>Geographer and faculty member at the Department of Urban Studies, Queens College, CUNY and co-editor with Christoph Lindner of the forthcoming book <em>Deconstructing the High Line<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Julian Brash<\/p>\n<p>Anthropologist at Montclair State University, author of <em>Bloomberg\u2019s New York<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Scott Larson<\/p>\n<p>Geographer and faculty member at Department of Urban Studies, Queens College, CUNY and author of <em>Building Like Moses with Jacobs in Mind<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Danya Sherman, Masters of City Planning candidate at MIT and former Director of Public Programs, Education &amp; Community Engagement at Friends of the High Line<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Deconstructing the High Line is co-sponsored by the School of Undergraduate Studies at The New School, the Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy at The New School, the Department of Urban Studies at Queens College-CUNY, and the Amsterdam Center for Globalisation Studies.<\/p>\n<p>Those attending are invited to join a reception immediately following the symposium to mark the publication of Christoph Lindner\u2019s new book on New York City, <em>Imagining New York City: Literature, Urbanism and the Visual Arts<\/em> (Oxford University Press, 2015).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, March 5th, 5:00-8:00pm The New School, Wollman Hall, 65 W. 11th St., 5th Fl. 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