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Old Posted May 11, 2012, 8:41 PM
Baronvonellis Baronvonellis is offline
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I don't think these elevated parks make much sense in areas that aren't already really vibrant and built out. In the picture it shows the viaduct next to a huge parking lot. Why not just tear down the viaduct and build a park on the surface level where the parking lot is. I would think a regular and larger park would get more use that an elevated park.
The only reason it works in Manhattan is that there's no land to build parks so that's the only place they could put a park. I'm not sure that the high line park in Chicago that they want to build would be used that much either.
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