'Sign' of the Times: A New Greenway is Born in the 'High Line'

GREENWAY-HIGHLINE GREENWAY- (High Line, New York) What is real!? Is this world a complex synaptic creation of our own making? Or, is there some form of greater collective creation occurring? Marc Bedarida ("Walking through the Psychogeography of Paris") - Architecture instructor at GT College of Architecture - suggests, “all the material of our mind borders on these zones of the unknown and the frightening”. The newest planted promenade of New York - more passionately referred to as the High Line - is an example of the spectacles that we create amongst us – incongruities between subject and meaning – which give rise to an uncertain strangeness and fear we experience as urban dwellers. The High Line is an exquisite piece of eco-revelatory design in its own right, and novel to New York. Similar to the spectacle created in Paris that is the Viaduc Daumesnil (Viauc des Arts), however, the High Line “is not a set of images, but a social relationship between peopl...