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Originally Posted by Troubadour
This is just the first step in a long-delayed path toward truly vertical cities - urban environments where the public space is as vertical as the private. I hope NY doesn't stop with with its current plans for the High Line: I hope they extend it throughout Manhattan, build it to whole new heights in multiple tiers, and show leadership for the whole world.
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You can dream all you like, but multiple tiers will never happen in NYC.
Actually, you are just dreaming if you think they will build the high line throughout manhattan. This isn't architecture studio class. The only chance you have is if they turned the elevated freeways into a new highline (unlikely).
Try somewhere else for your audacious dreams. I.e, some new city somwhere where such things could be possible, not in NYC which is under strict control of NIMBIES. No one would tolerate multiple tiers blocking light and more overhead structures ruining the street level experience on NY's narrow canyons. This is not something that will spread around, get it? This isn't Couruscant or Blade Runner here. This is NYC which is hardly the most progressive city when it comes to innovative urban design and is very reticent to change the classic look of the city (that is, a city of traffic). Wake me up when NY has it's equivalent of Nanjing Road or a European equivalent. If it can't even accomplish that, pedestrian bridges and vertical level platforms are just sci-fi fantasy.