New York’s Highline is a magnificent urban green space. Here’s my favourite planting.
Did you know Sydney has an 1854 rail line between Broadway and Darling Harbour? Now the city is looking to develop its Goods Line, linking key locations and increasing urban green space. As well as tourism potential – my walks on the Highline were shoulder-to-shoulder with tourists from all over.
The Institute for Sustainable Futures will be designing monitoring and evaluation research to help the city understand exactly how such green spaces contribute to a better quality of city living. Read more.
You can find a great account of Highline creator Robert Hammond’s talk at Melbourne Town Hall on Port Places’ post The Highline by my sister Janet Bolitho. She notes that Hammond was more enthusiastic about the culture of the Highline than its plantings. Nice reminder that I really enjoyed meeting a man sitting on a folding stool with a suitcase, who writes stories for people, for a small fee. He was having a doco made about him and chatted to us in a break.