Elevated park explained

An elevated park (sometimes known as a sky park) refers to a park located above the normal ground (street) level. This type of a park has become more popular in the early 21st century, featuring in a number of urban renewal projects.[1] [2] While usually associated with repurposed transportation infrastructure, some elevated parks are designed on top of buildings.

Elevated parks can exist, for example, on the roof of existing buildings (see also: green roof, roof garden),[3] [4] or on former railways, elevated roads, or other elevated urban elements (often becoming linear parks as well).[5] [6] [7] [8] Examples of a linear elevated park include New York's High Line, Chicago's Bloomingdale Line, or Seoul's Seoullo 7017 Skypark.[5] [9] [10] One of the earliest of such parks was the Promenade plantée (Coulée verte René-Dumont) in Paris, dating to 1993.[11] It has proven popular enough to encourage other cities to consider similar projects, a process that gained further momentum after the success of the High Line, the first such park in the United States, which opened in 2009.[1] [12] [13] [14] [15] Numerous cities worldwide have looked into or started construction of elevated parks, including London, Washington, DC, Jersey City, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, São Paulo, and Rotterdam.[16] In 2015, Hélène Littke noted that the "High Line in New York City started a worldwide trend of elevated parks", and new elevated parks are often compared to it.[17]

Elevated parks have been criticized for high costs, though they have generally attracted positive reviews, including from academia. Littke observed that "The High Line is undoubtedly loved, and it is a successful place in many ways", and that its success proves that "elevated parks can bring 'new' nature into cities without occupying ground-floor space".

In 2016, a public referendum to convert Seattle's Alaskan Way Viaduct into an elevated park, inspired by the High Line, was strongly rejected by voters.[18]

In 2022, a sky park was constructed on Castlefield Viaduct in Manchester, England.[19]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Urban Revitalization: Remaking cities in a changing world. 22 December 2015. Routledge. 978-1-317-91201-9. 107. Carl Grodach. Renia Ehrenfeucht.
  2. News: 7 Plans For Elevated 'High Line' Parks Around The World. Business Insider. 2017-05-30. en.
  3. Book: Thomas Schröpfer. Dense + Green: Innovative Building Types for Sustainable Urban Architecture. 1 January 2016. Birkhäuser. 978-3-03821-014-6. 264.
  4. Web site: Elevated parks in Sacramento – Why Not Here? – Sactown Magazine. www.sactownmag.com. 2 October 2014. 2017-05-30.
  5. Book: Shirley Jordan. Christoph Lindner. Cities Interrupted: Visual Culture and Urban Space. 25 February 2016. Bloomsbury Publishing. 978-1-4742-2444-4. 51–52.
  6. Book: C. Greig Crysler. Stephen Cairns. Hilde Heynen. The SAGE Handbook of Architectural Theory. 20 January 2012. SAGE Publications. 978-1-4739-7116-5. 824.
  7. Book: Bruce Sharky. Thinking about Landscape Architecture: Principles of a Design Profession for the 21st Century. 5 February 2016. Routledge. 978-1-317-53841-7. 35–.
  8. Sinha. Amita. 2014-04-03. Slow landscapes of elevated linear parks: Bloomingdale Trail in Chicago. Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes. 34. 2. 113–122. 10.1080/14601176.2013.830428. 161802962. 1460-1176.
  9. News: Say hello to Seoul's new sky park. hermes. 2017-05-20. The Straits Times. 2017-05-21. en.
  10. Book: Carl T. Hyden. Theodore F. Sheckels. Public Places: Sites of Political Communication. 14 January 2016. Rowman & Littlefield. 978-1-4985-0726-4. 155.
  11. Book: Amalie Wright. Future Park: Imagining Tomorrow's Urban Parks. 19 September 2013. Csiro Publishing. 978-0-643-10662-8. 38.
  13. Gastil. Ray. 2013-10-01. Prospect parks: walking the Promenade Planteé and the High Line. Studies in the History of Gardens & Designed Landscapes. 33. 4. 280–289. 10.1080/14601176.2013.807650. 162260743. 1460-1176.
  14. Web site: How the High Line Changed NYC Village Voice. 3 May 2017. 2017-05-30.
  15. News: Photos: The Differing Destinies of Elevated Urban Parks. 2017-05-30. en.
  16. An Elevated Park That Makes NYC's High Line Look Tiny. Rhodes. Margaret. WIRED. 2017-05-30. en-US.
  17. Littke. Hélène. Locke. Ryan. Haas. Tigran. 2016-10-01. Taking the High Line: elevated parks, transforming neighbourhoods, and the ever-changing relationship between the urban and nature. Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability. 9. 4. 353–371. 10.1080/17549175.2015.1063532. 142879219. 1754-9175.
  18. News: Madej . Patricia . August 2, 2016 . Voters soundly reject elevated waterfront park for downtown Seattle . . June 1, 2017.
  19. News: Whelan . Dan . Work starts on first phase of £20m Castlefield Viaduct park . Place Northwest . 7 March 2022 . 7 March 2022 . 7 March 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220307154417/https://www.placenorthwest.co.uk/news/work-starts-on-first-phase-of-20m-castlefield-viaduct-park/ . dead .

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