Toward a Robust and Accountable Transportation Planning Process

Gary Toth following up on his reflections on the USDOT webinar, Forum on Livability. As a career transportation geek, I found it particularly encouraging to hear talk about a new transportation planning process attached to performance measures which go beyond the overused and myopic focus solely on auto oriented benchmarks such as pavement quality, bridge inspections [...]

Placemaking at Harvard Yard: Enhancing the Humanities with Human Activity

Kris Snibbe/Harvard News Office The memorable experiences of one’s education often take place in the most comfortable and socially engaging places on a campus.  Campus planning has sometimes been neglectful of allowing for and creating such places, instead focusing more narrowly on single-use facilities and isolated design statements. Harvard University has been quietly challenging this pattern and [...]

Placemaker Profile: Alan Barber

“Placemaker Profiles” highlights the individuals who have captured our imagination about the need to create great places in every community. By bringing together their valuable stories, key insights, and compelling visions, we hope to share their wisdom with our readers, honor their accomplishments, and acknowledge their profound influence on the Placemaking movement. For more Placemaker Profiles, [...]

Garden Play 1

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"It is my intention in "Garden Play" to engage the spectator in the ritual of play within the formality of the garden."

-Topher Delaney

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Bench and Landscaping along The High Line ~ New York City

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New York's Highline Linear Park - www.thehighline.org/

Craft/Artisan Market at UN Plaza

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A view along New York's High Line Linear Park

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Rolleiflex SLX - 80mm Zeiss planar lens - 220 Kodak Portra 400VC film

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About the High Line (excerpted from their website)

The High Line was originally constructed in the 1930s, to lift dangerous freight trains off Manhattan's streets. Section 1 of the High Line is open as a public park, owned by the City of New York and operated under the jurisdiction of the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation. Friends of the High Line is the conservancy charged with raising private funds for the park and overseeing its maintenance and operations, pursuant to an agreement with the Parks Department.

When all sections are complete, the High Line will be a mile-and-a-half-long elevated park, running through the West Side neighborhoods of the Meatpacking District, West Chelsea and Clinton/Hell's Kitchen. It features an integrated landscape, designed by landscape architects James Corner Field Operations, with architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro, combining meandering concrete pathways with naturalistic plantings. Fixed and movable seating, lighting, and special features are also included in the park.

Beautiful Day

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