High Line is a public park, worked and planned by Friends of the High Line in partnership with the New York City department of parks and recreation which is owned by the City of New York. The innovatively designed High Line, has contributed to processes of gentrification that have transformed to socially diverse neighborhood of Chelsea and worthwhile by the city and visited by tourists. The High Line was designed as a platform for free, leisurely, social, and cultural activity. High line was built by the New York central railroad between 1929 and 1934 to lift dangerous freight trains from manhattans streets which connects from the factories and warehouses along 10th and 11th avenue with the West Side Rail Yards. The High Line was the part …show more content…
Whyte have to evaluate the High Line then as he has dedicated to documenting the progress of newly planned urban spaces, he received a grant to study the street life of New York City. Whyte believed in the resolution of public spaces. He also believed that the social life in public spaces contributes a vital role to the quality of life of individuals and society as a whole. We should have ethical bonds to create physical places that helps public engagement and community interaction. For him, small urban places are “priceless,” and the city street is “the river of life…where we come together.” So the High Line would be a great urban place which is also connected with the Manhattan city so there are chances for the community to be …show more content…
High Line has lots of arrangements like the foremost important is the part is this High Line is open to the Public. This will make all kind of people to come and have some recreational time with their friends or families. Also it has a good environment with lots of artworks, brick houses, factories, plants and the rail line which is the highlight and gives the portrait of industrialization. From my viewpoint, I think the benches are important too. Why? Because I think after a long walk people tends to sit and take a rest even if it’s for one minute. Then there are also varieties of restaurants with the sitting arrangements. I think it has provided a sense of community between people since there are not much places to move around or have place to go except for museums, small parks and sky scrapers. High Line has also provided food and art as a means to entertain and nourish its visitors with the sense of
of “the dizzying hustle of Eighth Avenue” or the Empire State Building (4). We can
The Blue Line is an easy walk that takes you down quiet, shaded streets, past quaint shops, art galleries, a variety of eateries, and beautiful homes from the mid-1800s and early 1900s. There are benches along the way where you can relax or just do some “people watching.”
She also introducing new urban building standards. This this article she talks about, the idea some people have of tearing it down and rebuilding. She also talks about ideas people have about some parts of towns. In Boston, she talks about the area of North End, and the change that it was over gone. During her second visit to this area, she discovered that it had changed. She talked to other about it, although the statistic were higher than the city, the people still saw it as a slum. They felt that they needed to tear it down in order to build something better. This leads to the conclusion that the urban planners to do understand that the people of the city need. They have ideas that were developed years ago that they are still using. These ideas do not take account what the people want. The author also introducing new ideas of a perfect city to live in and what it would look like. The idea of a garden city was introduced. This city would be built around a park. Although the new ideas sounded great they could not be put into place today. The idea of a Garden City is something that sounds nice, but it is not possible in society today. Today a city should reflect economic status, and in order to achieve this the city should be big, and convey an image of power. A city that has aspects of nature in it would not convey that image. That upkeep of a city of that kind would also be difficult. The do understand the author's point of view. The planners often times do not take into account the desires of the people. The town that I grow up in want to become more urbanized. In order to do this, they are building a large shopping center. This shopping center is located in the canyon rim. This canyon rim has been important the people for many years. We come to the area to walk, what bass jumpers, and enjoy the scenic views. This new shopping center took away this area. Many of the people
The New York City Subway is one of the oldest public transit systems in the world, and Manhattan has its fair share of it, especially in the form of abandoned subway stations.Subways are great mean of transportation, with great historical and geographical value. Interborough Rapid Transit company built the first subway in 1904. The subway consisted of what is today the IRT Lexington Avenue Line south of 42nd Street, the 42nd Street Shuttle and the IRT Broadway - Seventh Avenue Line between 42nd and 145th Streets. 28th Street is a part of the first IRT line of NewYork city. It a local station on the Lexington Avenue Line of the New York City Subway, located at the intersection of Park
Every culture left a mark of its quality on New York’s buildings that change over time: some are old, some are new, some are tall, and some are small. They might have a lot in common, but not one building is like the other. Diversity is what makes New York.
New York City is one of the most significant city in the world. It started out as a small Dutch city and grew to what it has become today. It didn’t “just happen” right away but instead, it took a long time to be called as “The Big Apple” or “The City that Never Sleeps.” The character of the place has gradually changed over time and really came to become a global power city during the early twentieth century. For example, 1783 to 1835 was also an important time period in the history of New York City that laid a strong foundation to become an industrialized city. However, considering the developments that happened from 1898 to 1945 to be more organized and effective, the most iconic and quintessential period was from 1898 to 1945 in the history of New York, which we haven’t reached it in our course so far.
New York City’s population is a little over 8.3 million people. 8.3 million people are spread out among five boroughs and each have their own set routine. Each one of those 8.3 million see New York in a different way becuase “You start building your private New York the first time you lay eyes on it” (“City Limits” 4). Some people are like Colson Whitehead who “was born here and thus ruined for anywhere else” (“City Limits” 3). Others may have “moved here a couple years ago for a job. Maybe [they] came here for school” (“City Limits” 3). Different reasons have brought these people together. They are grouped as New Yorkers, but many times, living in New York is their only bond. With on going changes and never ending commotion, it is hard to define New York and its inhabitants in simple terms.
The subway started its initial run at that time, under the auspices of the Interborough Rapid Transit Company (IRT), traveling nine miles through 28 stations in Manhattan. Even though Boston built their subway seven years earlier that New York City, NYC has the largest American rapid transit system in The U.S.A. At that day approximately 100,000 New Yorker tried the submerged railroad which was only in Manhattan, starting from south of the borough in City Hall heading north until Harlem station. The ticket costed a five cent coin. However, a year later the expanding reached the Bronx to have better connection outside the island. Three years later, IRT opened their lines in Brooklyn and toke another seven years to run their trains in Queens. Unfortunately, they never connected the subway lines to the fifth borough, but Staten Island has its own subway system since it is an island and it is hard and expensive to construct long tunnels underwater. In 1968, the Metropolitan Transport Authority (MTA) had the charge of running the system until today. The system has more than 25 lines scattered in the four boroughs with about 470 stations. The engineers studied the infrastructure of NYC to locate ewers, gas pipes, water mains, electric conduits, and other subsurface structures accurately to avoid any kind of accidents. They used the classic cut and
At first the Spanish Harlem or also called “El Barrio”. An unsafe neighborhood with social issues that remains up to day as one of the most dangerous neighborhoods in New York where the story for the movie begin (Nelson). Later, we can observe the famous subway of the city of New York, that is one of the most used mass transportation in the world operating in a 24/7 basis with 34 lines and 469 stations around the five boroughs(Itzkowitz). And lastly, the Grand Central Station is captured in the film, which is one of the busiest train stations in the world serving every day around 200,000 commuters (NYC Tourist)
Firm statements that if followed, a city can improve at an enormously fast rate. Such arguments have to do with public spaces, communities, natural environments/ ecology, the distinction between pedestrian, public transit and private transportation’s via,
Again, this section will give a working definition of the “urban question’. To fully compare the political economy and ecological perspectives a description of the “urban question” allows the reader to better understand the divergent schools of thought. For Social Science scholars, from a variety of disciplines, the “urban question” asks how space and the urban or city are related (The City Reader, 2009). The perspective that guides the ecological and the social spatial-dialect schools of thought asks the “urban question” in separate distinct terminology. Respected scholars from the ecological mode of thinking, like Burgess, Wirth and others view society and space from the rationale that geographical scope determines society (The City Reader, 2009). The “urban question” that results from the ecological paradigm sees the relationship between the city (space) as influencing the behaviors of individuals or society in the city. On the other hand...
The main content of this film was to explain to us how New York city is always changing. First, we saw how from the 1880’s immigrants started coming to New York from Europe due to the industrial revolution that was happening there. When they got to New York they described the good feeling they got when they first saw the Statue of Liberty, it was a feeling of freedom. They described New York as “A City of Heaven.” Many and many of them were coming to New York to get that freedom that they did not have in their countries. Immigrants basically changed New York and New York changed them too. In the film we saw that because of the growing population, they were obligated to start constructing up. With the help of new technologies like the elevator and steel, out came the skyscraper. Everything that happened during this time made what is New York today. New York changed with the immigrant labor, for example, they were the one who constructed skyscraper, which are one of the things that makes New York unique today. Almost all of those immigrants were farmers, and they changed with New York, an example, is when those farmers came to work with steel which was something new to them. Immigrants worked hard, they did whatever was necessary to survive. Also, they wanted their kids to keep their culture, which made New York a multicultural city.
When you associate anything with New York City it is usually the extraordinary buildings that pierce the sky or the congested sidewalks with people desperate to shop in the famous stores in which celebrities dwell. Even with my short visit there I found myself lost within the Big Apple. The voices of the never-ending attractions call out and envelop you in their awe. The streets are filled with an atmosphere that is like a young child on a shopping spree in a candy store. Although your feet swelter from the continuous walking, you find yourself pressing on with the yearning to discover the 'New York Experience'.
The original intent of street development in our country appeared to be for the legitimate reasons of postal service and agricultural shipping routes. Not until the automobile industry and economic opportunists got involved did the transportation system in America start to change. The system of buses and streetcars in the cities appeared to be functioning reasonably well. The theory of “if it’s not broke, don’t fix it” was not applied here. The auto industry convinced numerous cities to rid their streets of the streetcars and cut back on bus transportation. Overall results were good, for the auto industry. Urban centers started to lose large portions of their downtown populations to urban flight out of the city. The stereotypical suburban style living be...
Parks, Plazas, Main Street, shopping centers among other places are considered to be public spaces. The ideology of public space can be traced back to the “Greek agora and its function as: the place of citizenship, an open space where public affairs and legal disputes were conducted” (Moseley). Throughout the nation and even the world the local government can establish places designed for people to gather, meet up friends, take a lunch break, or simply enjoy the view. Usually public spaces are designed for the comfort of the citizen and well for the comfort of the “public.” Modern urbanized cities tend to focus more on public space they create public spaces for children like playgrounds and parks. They create public spaces for everyone. Living in an urbanized setting usually indicates a small space for physical activities since most people live in apartment buildings and if the weather allows it many can spend their afternoon going for a walk in a park, or simply window shopping in Main Street. Usually folks in the country side have so much space in their land that they do not depend on the local government to create public spaces for them to enjoy their afternoons or outings. Public space as much “public” as it claims to be it can have invisible boundaries or restrictions for individuals who do not meet the “expectations” of the public desired it can target or neglect individuals depending on their economic position or gender which will be explained later on. The main focus of this essay is to describe the promising aspect and danger of the public space.